Shady

He huffed and closed his eyes sourly.

“Mm… I think it’d be good for you to break out of your comfort zone, too. And these are safe nobles to do that with. I think you’d have to ...

“I feel like she’s less scary to talk to than him,” he countered. “And has no real power. I think she’d like to talk to you.”

“Yes’m,” he said breathlessly, weakly nodding.

“It’s… it’s fine.” Tadaaki closed his eyes and shook his head.

“Yes’m,” he murmured. He’d believe that when he saw it. Which he wouldn’t live to see it. This was finally going to be the thing to do him in. He’d ...

“As do I,” Pratik agreed. “… you can talk to her though, you know. You’re not a slave anymore, you’re allowed to have a voice. And she seems very sweet. ...

Tadaaki was shuddering, each breath feeling like it was shaking his organs. But he laid very still and watched her with cracked eyes, scared and hurt, but very quiet.

Pratik cringed and nodded. “I can’t imagine.”

(Also giving Tadaaki a broken collarbone for the hell of it) Ky whimpered and kept turning her head but didn’t get the blanket any further off. They were trying to ...

“Very true,” Pratik agreed. “I have no doubt he takes revenge and is savage about it. But it’s not like Tarr personally has come after him… though I suppose there ...

(Okay decided on injuries. I think they’d all have broken ribs for sure. Let’s say Ky has three on the right and also her left forearm has a fracture but ...

“Maybe,” Pratik agreed. “We can hope. It’d be easier to do it with reinforcements… I mean I can get in just fine. Do it myself. But it’d be more likely ...

Ky whimpered as they laid her down even though they did so very gently. Tadaaki inhaled sharply at the change of position but clenched his teeth and closed his eyes. ...

Aleth nodded but fell silent, exhausted from the effort of speaking. Tadaaki had also lost the energy to stay propped up looking at Ky, but was doing his best to ...