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It was a smooth deflection. Not specifying what categories he wasn’t allowed to read by pointing out the ones he could. Fine. He’d just need to be careful in his ...

“Of that, I have no doubt,” Zander chuckled. His mind flicked back to the journals, but he decided not to bring them up. Ever. If Ky managed to get her ...

Zander nodded, too. “I don’t think there’s time for me to get immersed in anything here before lunch, but I’d certainly like to circle back at some point.”

Aleth would be delighted about this when she reported back to him. Both the fact that she'd gotten so thoroughly, humiliatingly spooked. And the fact that she was stuck with ...

"Hah!" Zander grinned and shook his head. He highly doubted Emery had every single aisle of the library memorized, especially to the absurd degree Zander was demanding -- but he ...

"Right. Okay." Ky said with this energy: Still, being with a cocky idiot seemed better than being alone... probably... for now, anyhow. And, well, she got the distinct impression that ...

Zander squinted at him, trying to decide if that was sarcasm or not. The delivery didn't seem ironic. But he also didn't want to risk looking foolish if he took ...

Zander scoffed, but grinned, trying to think of another topic. "... history of athletics in the East?"

(Aww, okay, cool -- good to know he's not utterly insufferable lol but yes he may not be her father but she is absolutely his kiddo haha) "What about..." Zander ...

Ky stared at him for a long moment. There were too many things to break down in that comment, and yet she wanted to dismiss him entirely as the psychopath ...

Ky furrowed her brow at him. "Wonderful... and the people who died down here, then?"

(Sweet! I like their dynamic. I feel like this is more the Zander I was going for — he’s being too pushy with Ky and idk why lol) Zander beheld ...

Ky had also dropped her — Pratik’s — umbrella. And Pratik’s poncho was shredded from both yanking away from Gabriel and then the rumble down the hill. He shoved it ...

(Cool! Could be a fun thing to hear the full background, but Zander won’t poke at it unprovoked lol) Zander took a comically large breath.

(Ahhh fair point guess this is the talking heads haha I feel like Zander has probably caught on by now Emery was a former slave, but probably knows no details? ...