Shady

"They're mean?" Ky shrank despite herself. Could she get another deer in the next hour? She doubted it. People would have questions.

(Valid!) Ky tensed, looking at the woods. "I don't know... how close? Is it coming here ? Why is it coming here? What does it want?"

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Ky looked at him skeptically. "I feel like that conversation won't end pretty."

Ky snorted. "You think I should go up to Gaius and ask him why he never says what he means?"

"What questions?"

Ky didn't understand how you could both be proud and shy at the same time. Weren't those conflicting qualities? "She's trying to keep the peace between us... I feel bad ...

Ky cringed sympathetically. "Maybe... I don't know. I wish he would just tell me what he wants from me. I'd do it happily. I just don't know what 'it' is."

"I don't know !" she said, feeling justified in the fact that Rönn was as confused by Gaius as she was. "That's the problem. I don't understand him. And every ...

"How am I supposed to talk to him about this when I can't even talk about happy things without making him mad?" Ky asked. "And Tomhas is a noble, too. ...

"Make me angry?" she scoffed. " He's the one who's always angry. If I try to be nice. If I try to be honest. If I talk -- if I ...

"Mm." She still had her brow furrowed. "Well that's not my fault."

"I don't understand." She sighed and propped her chin up on her knees. "If I'm so confusing, then why not just ask me what you don't understand?"

"He's not that old," Ky said, brow furrowed. She supposed Rönn had a pass, what with being centuries old. He was also confusing to her, a little. But mostly just ...

"Why am I confusing?" Gods, did everyone hate her? "I'm just a person... am I really that difficult to deal with?"