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(I don’t even understand why it’s doing this I didn’t close the tab when writing the response it’s auto saving) Ky glanced around. She was so tired. Would Sara take ...

(Omg I’m so annoyed I have had the auto saved message for no apparent reason and it’s pissing me off so I just cleared my entire history and it’s still ...

Ky sat down. Could she get away with leaving? Now that she was rescued from the dining hall. Could she rescue herself from the kitchen?

Ky looked at her for another moment then away again. “Mm.” There was probably a limit to how many times you could get away with calling your aunt stupid before ...

Ky glanced at her. Was that rhetorical? Or did Sara genuinely not see that she had no point.

“It doesn’t have to be deliberate to be bad.”

“Mm.” She needed to shut up. And yet she didn’t. “So merciful they almost killed Ada to tell us that?”

“She never sent trolls after me or cursed a good man to be a goat for six-hundred years,” Ky said. “Your gods are toddlers and it’s not safe to be ...

“It’s stupid to wait around for the gods to kill us,” Ky said bluntly. “No one can look after anyone when the adversaries are the gods.” They didn’t even feel ...

Ky glanced at her, then into the kitchen. “Not unless you can convince my parents to take us all South.”

“Mm.” Great. So Ky really was fighting an uphill battle here with her parents, thanks to him.

“Hopefully.” Ky buried her hands in her pockets. Sara seemed more optimistic than she was. Gaius wasn’t ever going to forgive her. Especially not after she called him stupid for ...

Ky stared at her for a moment, then nodded. “Oh… well… that’s good, then.” Apparently someone did speak Gaius fluently.

Ky blinked at her, surprised. “It… is?”

“He said I summed it up and then thanked me… so… I guess… it was okay?” Ky shrugged tensely. “I don’t know. He didn’t say much.”