Shady

(Oof — glad to hear you’re feeling good tho! How did it go?) Ky nodded. “That’s true… I’m still going to be careful.” She’d realized with horror a few days ...

(But also yes haha it’s so gratifying to watch the page count go up. And we got in a very nice bingey last night!) “There’s lots that could be stained,” ...

(It’s 89 not 99 lol) “But nothing.” Ky shook her head quickly. Then hesitated. He was going to call her a liar. Because she was. It was better to give ...

Everything concerned her. Losing Zander. Her parents. Four months of hell. Having a terrifying trainer that he was inevitably going to force her to pick. The risk of destroying her ...

“Of course.” Ky dipped her head, glancing at the grove. He was right. She was being too harsh about a child. None of this was actually Tasia’s fault. And she’d ...

Why was she incapable of selling herself to him? It was frustrating. Why hadn’t that worked? “I know,” she said quickly. “It wasn’t.” Kind of was. But she didn’t blame ...

She saw what he was doing and flashed a smile, determined not to let him see her guilt. She needed to get better at accepting criticism. Especially when it was ...

Oh. That. She’d meant in terms of begging for charity. But gods, she had caused a ruckus at breakfast, hadn’t she? And it’d annoyed him. She figured it would. She ...

Ky was silent for a moment also. Whether she should or shouldn’t be, she was proud. “…you’re sure I’m not being inappropriate?”

Ky nodded in agreement. “They are.” She wasn’t sure they could undo her fierce independence. But perhaps.

“No, I know.” Ky said quickly and shook her head, mentally kicking herself for letting it show on her face. She knew he wasn’t making that comparison; she’d made the ...

Ky cringed at that. Was she more like Gaius’s father than her own? Gods. But she nodded. It was probably best that Gaius and Tomhas weren't like Septimus and… she… ...

“…I guess so,” Ky agreed hesitantly, not at all enjoying the fact that there was truth to what he was saying. Perhaps she was irreparably jaded now. She’d grown so ...

Ky hesitated. His assurance made her feel a tiny bit better again. Perhaps this talk was worthwhile after all. She didn’t want to argue with him — but it took ...

“I don’t want more.” Ky shook her head, though it did make her feel better to have Tomhas’s own brother confirm that she wasn’t wheedling. She hesitated for a moment, ...