Shady

“The gods aren’t awake yet.”

“It’s not ‘simple’,” Ky scoffed. “This isn’t a new species of finch. It’s a walking mountain that’s going to come kill his entire family.”

“ Exactly ,” Ky said. “I don’t know why he’s excited about it.”

“Way taller than the wall.”

Ky cringed and nodded. “Not sure I want to know.”

“Unless she sees you,” Ky pointed out. “She doesn’t have to know you to kill you.”

(Yes! I’m salary and this is the first job in my life where that has worked out in my favor haha I’m used to like 50+ work weeks in my ...

(Omg they’re just sending me HOME— under 3 hour work day I’m here for it) “I doubt it.” Ky shook her head. “How do you kill a stone?”

Ky shrugged. “I don’t know… I was too scared to ask. I didn’t like she’s real.”

“Rönn says so,” she said with a cringe.

Ky shuddered. “I’d never heard of her. Apparently people murdered her sons so now she wanders the lands and is very, very slow but never stops. Ever. And if she ...

“I liked it better when I didn’t know they were real.”

“Yeah.” Ky looked down the hall, getting angry at the injustice again. “He got fucked.” The profanity felt weird in her mouth. And yet also felt fitting.

“They died,” she said flatly. “And he’s been left alone to mourn them for centuries.”

“You can’t all be from Earth,” Jerica scoffed, looking around the different portals. “What— you mean, like, different countries? And only some people know about magic?”