Shady

“He is,” Ky said sadly. “I’m still the only friend he has; and I’m not enough.” Pratik glanced at her, then decided to hold the ladder rather than answer.

“… true enough. I suppose I don’t influence the gods… I am Rönn’s friend, though. That was me.” And so were the assassins.

Batfish would never do me like that 😤 Also luckily I just got off work two hours early so def should have time later.

“Yeah…” Ky sighed. “I fear I’ve brought bad luck with me… seems like things were more peaceful before I got here.”

“ He suffered badly.” It was such an odd place to be — friends with a bogey man. She couldn’t sit by and let someone insult her friend. Obviously. And ...

“He didn’t do that until Builder cursed him,” Ky said firmly. This was 100% on a stupid god too lazy to tie up his stupid goat. “It’s not good… but… ...

“He overreacted,” Ky said defensively. “It was just a goat . Rönn didn’t deserve six hundred years of lonely hell… and yeah… he can make his own fire and have ...

“He’s nice! … well… a bit gruff,” she admitted. “He’ll definitely tell you when you’re being dumb… which is a lot… for me. But he’s very, uh, I mean, he ...

Ky gave a nervous smile. What had she heard? “Ky Ruiarc, ma’am. Pleased to meet you.” She gave a little bow. “Pratik Chrenko,” he inclined his head. “A pleasure to ...

(Yra… unless you want one of them to follow Ada. I’d be fine with that lol)

Ky and Pratik glanced at each other, then both stood up and followed. They were both kind of done with studious Gaius.

Ky looked at him for a moment then dipped her head. He was right. She’d been bratty about it. She’d just feared he’d stop her from saying it if she ...

Pretty sure they all knew at this point. This still felt like a situation in which Ky should not draw attention to herself. And Pratik certainly wasn’t going to add ...

Ky carefully tried to sit very still so that the focus stayed off her. Gaius was going to be pissed. But Ada deserved to know.

They both shrugged, helpless. They just had to trust them.