Shady

Ky glanced at him uneasily. How did she always manage to insult his family? She really should just shut up. And yet she did. “Well, my parents weren’t,” she said, ...

“Oh… well that’s rape, not a relationship. It’s different.” She’d cut people off for that, too.

“… why?”

“I don't ,” she agreed. “They’re all terrible.”

(Haha fair enough) “You can’t just cut someone off for falling in love,” she said firmly, lifting her chin. It was clear she’d made this opinion long ago.

(That is too many ancestors. Put some ancestors back lol) “Makes sense… but, I mean, everyone has ancestors. I didn’t just spontaneously spawn out of no where. But I don’t ...

(If you did, I have entirely forgotten haha I remember Isya/Arthur and that’s like it haha) “Oh.” What a foreign thought. Mama was an only child and Papa was estranged ...

“You have cousins?” Somehow that thought had never crossed her mind before. That he and Tomhas didn’t exist as islands, apart from Cecily. Did he have aunts? Uncles? Were they ...

“Whoever.” Ky shrugged. “Someone said some Nobles open their Keeps to peasants to weather out the winter… I’m guessing that doesn’t happen here. But… does anyone come?”

(*side eyes Tomhas*) Ky nodded. They were swiftly making their way towards her getting pissy again. What were other safe topics? She was trying to think of something other than ...

“Yeah.” Was it, though? The fact that she had no hope of anything whatsoever? No hope of seeing Zander again. No hopes of surviving winter without self-destructing entirely. No hope ...

“I’m not.” Was that too harsh? Too pessimistic? Perhaps she should have softened it. And yet she couldn’t think of anything to add to do just that.

Ky nodded. No, they wouldn’t. He’d just said no one went out during the winter. They weren’t going to force her to stay here away from the assassins for five ...

Gods. That was such inconvenient timing. The probability of Zander returning in the next three months was slim. So she’d be trapped here. “So I’ll be here for at least ...

“How long until winter?”