Shady

(Night! Sleep well!) “Um… I… I don’t know,” she admitted sheepishly. “I never think babies look much like anyone but themselves… too smooshed at first.” (Also I don’t think I ...

“True.” Ky thought for a moment. “I mean, there’s Raina. She’s perfect in all ways.”

(Very true… now I gotta figure out if she was like this before lol) “That not enough for you?” Ky asked playfully, grinning.

“Mm… I suppose whatever makes you most comfortable in your own home.” His own chaotic, stressful, unorganized home. That was completely unusable. And unenjoyable. (Never expected Ky to be a ...

“Well if you need the book it’s good to know where to find it.”

“But how would you possibly find anything?” She pressed.

“Sounds stressful.”

“A chaotic library?” Ky turned towards him.

Ky smiled and nodded her thanks to him, stepping inside. “That’s the truth.” Maybe that’s what her problem was. Maybe if she could unlearn her Aleth-instilled fretfulness, maybe she’d be ...

“As it shouldn’t.” She grinned more. “Dancing is about having fun, not being good.”

Ky gasped softly, grinning. She could work with that. “I could see that. They seem like dancers.”

“That’s good.” Ky nodded. She smiled sheepishly and added playfully, “Now I have influence.”

“Oh.” Ky smiled at that. “… so it doesn’t look bad for a noble to dance?” She was fishing. Zander passively watched it, hoping the answer was no. He couldn’t ...

“I’m sure he will,” Ky said with a smile. Then hesitated, glancing at Emery. “…don’t know that he’d sanction dancing, though?”

Ky buried her hands in her pockets, ducking her head with a nod.