Shady

“…maybe?” She didn’t know what those were.

“My… parents,” her voice hitched.

(Ahh I see… okay, thanks haha and would they have passed towns/what sorts of things might she have seen?) “Um… we saw some deer. And some really, really big deer ...

“They don’t want me!” Her words were muffled from the way her face was pressed against Sara’s chest.

Wrong… wrong. No. Wrong person. Wrong— And yet. Sara had offered to comfort her. She’d offered so many times. Ky crumpled against her, hugging her tightly.

(What would be feasible? I just talked out of my ass haha)

Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck. “Thankfully nothing big, sir. A coyote followed us for a bit, but we never saw it, just heard it. Saw a bobcat or two. ...

He loved her. But he didn’t want her. But her siblings. But… but… She was losing the battle against tears again though it was short of a proper sob. She ...

“… I don’t know, sir.” She shook her head hopelessly. They didn’t have this written into their alibi, and she legitimately couldn’t remember any of the signs even if she ...

She couldn’t do this anymore. She needed a break. She needed… Tadaaki. She was having too many feelings; she couldn’t handle them by herself. She got up and hurried into ...

“I can’t read, sir.” She shook her head.

She roughly wiped her eyes as more tears dribbled from them. These were a bit bitter — a reminder that she didn’t get to be there as part of the ...

“ Terrible ,” she agreed with a nod. She, also, didn’t know how they’d made it here alive. But. Well. She supposed she did know, to an extent. Death would ...

She eventually calmed herself enough to keep reading, even though she was nowhere close to truly being calm. How was he thinking about sword lessons at a time like this? ...

“None of us know what plants are safe to eat up here, sir,” she said. “And we feared bringing the horse with us would draw the attention of beasts. So ...