Shady

The bottom dropped out of his stomach. Shit. Maybe he didn’t want to see Ash’s spine. “… I’m not lying, sir.”

She regretted running into Sara. She should have stayed in the parlor until she calmed down. She wanted nothing to do with any of the Ashes at this point. And ...

No. Fuck him. Aleth pulled this bullshit, too. Making him sweat. See if he changed his answer. Well, he wasn’t going to. He was still far more scared of Aleth ...

Ky nodded sourly. “That doesn’t change it.”

“Well… he succeeded, apparently,” she said stiffly. Tomhas successfully manipulated. Good job Gaius.

Trap, trap, trap- “No, sir.”

“We walked by one, but didn’t linger. We had no money or business there and only stayed maybe a couple of minutes as we walked by.”

“I told him I wanted to come home. In a way that didn’t upset him,” she said. “Gaius could have figured out a way, too. But he didn’t.”

“I… don’t know, sir.” He shook his head helplessly. This was most definitely a trap. And he wasn’t going to walk into it. “I didn’t pay them too much mind; ...

“He…” Ky sighed. This was Gaius’s fault. Even if she couldn’t figure out how to articulate how.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. What would Ky do? Aleth? One of them would know. They’d know if this was a safe question to answer. Know how to redirect the conversation if ...

Ky knew what she was doing; and she didn’t like that she had a point. “… my friend would take the bird home.”

“Um…” Tadaaki glanced at him and then away again. Aleth always said for a lie to be believable or had to be detailed and specific. But. Well. He wasn’t good ...

“Why?” She asked, resting her chin on her knees and staring at the wall ahead of her. Maybe she didn’t like having parents after all. At least not aunts and ...

(Hm… fair. I feel like part about abandoning the bag and not knowing about the plants is just truth haha I’ll edit slightly to just focus on the plants rather ...