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(Hahaha right? It just kept going ) Ky flushed and shook her head quickly. That was the last thing she wanted. At no point in her life would she have ...

Ky nodded again. "I wish you the best of luck." This feels very Gaius-y

Ky nodded. She didn't understand their relationship whatsoever. And yet it seemed to have worked for them for about as long as she'd been alive, so she supposed she must ...

“I… don’t think it’s going to fade before he does something…” stupid. “…About it.”

She looked at her thoughtfully. “… he does seem rather excited by it all.”

Ky nodded in agreement. Hyperfixating was a very good word to describe what an annoyance he’d turned into this week.

“Yeah, that…” Ky nodded. What the hell was she doing? Criticizing Gaius? And to Sara of all people. Gods. She was going to die. “Doesn’t seem prudent.”

Ky nodded in agreement then, “wait, he’s amputating his leg?”

“It… objectively safer to go to our families than it is to go towards a god. It… feels hypocritical for him to go on a more dangerous trip that he ...

“It…” She put her hand over her mouth, stopping herself. It wasn’t her place to say this. And yet she was supposed to say all the things she wasn’t supposed ...

“Absolutely,” Ky said without hesitation. “I’d be willing to risk it in a heartbeat.”

Ky finished off her tea. How soon could that happen? Maybe a week for preparations? Two weeks for travel? She could survive three more weeks here. Or. Well. One more ...

“Right.” Ky nodded and took another drink of her tea, trying play it cool. But her energy was far higher strung now than it’d been before. Excited. Hopeful.

Could Sara actually manage to make this happen? Send her home? It seemed too good to be true. And yet she needed the sliver of hope to stay alive. Maybe ...

(Thanks! It definitely did haha) “Okay!” Ky nodded. It was entirely too late for that. “Thank you.”