Shady

Should she say something? Her inner defensive strategies were warring. On one hand, good slaves were seen and not heard. On the other, she was always supposed to be charismatic ...

(would she know about the surgery or is he keeping it hush hush?)

Her heart was beating so hard it felt like it was in danger of bursting out of her ribcage. She swallowed hard, keeping her gaze on his feet. This was ...

"What?" She looked at him, then around the room, and shook her head. "No." There was no chance in hell she was going to be in this study without him. ...

She had a spike of anxiety when he didn't answer but didn't let it show. That'd been a solid excuse. A Southerner -- fear of hypothermia -- it made sense. ...

They shouldn't have asked. She could have asked forgiveness. What would he have done -- toss her off his doorstep? Of course not. He'd probably be angry with her and ...

"I can't take it off by myself." She blushed more, dropping her gaze as she gestured behind her back. "There's a zipper than ran the length of my spine. I ...

Ky fell silent, glaring down at the letter. She wasn't sure she even wanted to read the rest of it at this point. What other stupid decisions was he going ...

"They stripped me down, but he asked them to put me back in it after they checked me. The cuts hurt far worse with a binder pressing against them -- ...

She winced as he threw the journals in her face. That-- That was unrelated entirely. He was just trying to fuck with her head so that she felt like the ...

"Yessir." Ky inclined her head. She'd expected that question, after seeing how poorly the apothecary had reacted to it; she wasn't surprised she'd told Ash. But. Well. She wasn't going ...

(My point exactly xD also yeah I looked down and was like oh hecc we in , in triple page digits lol not just like one page over) "Well now ...

"Uh." She froze. That was a lot of questions to field all at once. "Ryken Neff." Hopefully giving him a last name wasn't a mistake. They'd all agreed on that ...

(This is getting out of hand lmao @GrandWild) Ky huffed again and resumed her pacing, feeling tears burning at the back of her throat though they didn't surface yet. This ...

"Ryken, sir."