Shady

Terror surged through Tadaaki and Ky at the same time, making their insides hurt. Get what over with first? What was she going to do to them? What were all ...

“Yeah…” Pratik decided not to verbalize what a foolish move he thought Gaius was making. It wasn’t his place. “It’s a risk to be sure.”

“It’s a long journey.” Pratik shrugged. “But I think he’s planning to leave relatively soon. I’d been planning to accompany him before… Ada… tonight has shifted my priorities.”

(Yeah, I’m good for that if you want! He definitely can’t be here until we are ready for an explosion haha but it could be fun to have him in ...

“I…” Ky hesitated. She wasn’t used to telling the truth. But, then, she wasn’t used to being asked how she felt. She was used to just shutting up about it. ...

“Mm…” Pratik thought for a moment. “I think he’s planning to go have a face-to-face with them. So. Probably not.” But, then, Pratik had been planning on going along too, ...

Ky wasn’t sure what the right answer was. The cloth had at least cooled now so that it no longer felt like a flame against her skin. But now her ...

“Oh… probably. Yeah.”

“I mean, it’d hardly be the librarians’ fault if the gods threw his books on the floor,” Pratik said. “He couldn’t blame them.”

“We had a horse,” Aleth said. “For part of it. But it got a lame foot and we… well… we hadn’t eaten since the escape… but… we’ve been on foot ...

(Ahh okay cool — and that’s where we were talking about, right? It’s been so long ago now I don’t remember haha I feel like it took two weeks between ...

“Oh, gosh.” Pratik scoffed and looked around. “I would not envy them.”

Pratik nodded. “Yeah… I’m sure they’ve got a lot on their minds beyond the library right now. Probably aren’t too hard pressed to return.”

Tadaaki and Ky both dipped their heads as she spoke their names, but knew better than to answer any questions not explicitly directed at them. “We’re not quite… sure,” Aleth ...

“I’d guess so,” Pratik said with a nod, glancing around. “Why?”