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Adeline nodded and glanced over at the group. When she turned back around, she was taken aback for a moment. Kartiel seemed to have changed forms again, and she was ...

"Thousands of years of emotional baggage..." Casey mumbled to himself, still glancing at the door. He hadn't even realized that he'd voiced his thoughts aloud.

Leo blushed at the woman's comment, his ears turning red in shame. Kit gently nudged him, not wanted to nag. "Go apologize- I think you hurt his feelings." She mumbled ...

"Alright.." Casey shifted from foot to foot, growing more and more uncomfortable with each rising sob and Lexal, who seemed to be agitated as well. He fiddled with his necklace ...

After finding some better pants for Leo in one of the rooms, Kit steered the group back toward the library, figuring that some of the tension from earlier would have ...

Adeline nodded and took a few more breaths before smiling. It didn't feel as fake now. "I'm okay. Thank you."

"I- I'm done." Adeline caught her breath, a little embarrassed that she had so completely lost herself in misery. She hesitantly pulled back her arms to wipe at her dry ...

"W- will he be okay?" Casey glanced worriedly at the door the god had gone into.

Adeline tried to control herself a bit. She reigned in the desperate sobs that shook her and tried to take a few breaths in between. "I... I miss them." She ...

Finch looked up at James and pulled a face, though the bandages were just what he needed. He wordlessly took them from his hands and set to work wrapping the ...

Finch watched this interaction wearily, and for once he was able to keep his thoughts to himself. They were mostly thoughts of confusion, darting around chaotically. As he listened, he ...

Casey his lip and nodded almost exitedly. "I mean, there were good ones too but... kidnapping children is a definite bad." He frowned at the ground, "not that I was ...

Casey looked up at the man with barely-concealed admiration. "The same thing happened to me," he said quickly, "but, um, not with magic. I don't really understand it- it was ...

Casey blushed as he was addressed by the god. He dipped his head low. "T- they were... given to me. I didn't ask for them, but yeah."

Adeline felt a burden released as she was held tight. Her shoulders shook with dry sobs. Of course, no tears left her eyes, but they stung as if in sympathy ...