Shady

Ky smiled, pleased that they’d gone from borderline arguing to actually being friendly. Ada still seemed a bit more short tempered than Ky generally looked for in a friend, but ...

Ky nodded. “I doubt I’ll be coming out here much — I’ve nearly no cold tolerance at all. But sometimes.” She’d probably climb into a hole in the library and ...

Ky nodded too. She glanced around. “Thanks for showing me the grove.”

“Oh, I know,” Ky said with a grim smirk. She sobered a bit. “But yeah. It’s nice to have parts of you that are just for you. Like a little ...

Ky nodded. “I’d believe it.” Gods knew she was warty all over now. Maybe Tasia was on to something — and maybe she’d played with too many toads.

“Mm…” Ky considered for a moment, then nodded. “True enough… everyone liked me, so I guess I never really considered otherwise.”

Ky thought for a moment. “I feel like things were back where I grew up. The most complicated part was trying to figure out how much food we’d need for ...

“I miss it, too,” Ky agreed. “There’s a certain kind of beauty in simplicity.”

Ky nodded in agreement. It was better that way. A simple fifteen minute walk or so to all her friends and the help of her entire township. Faster if you ...

Ky nodded, then hesitated. “I was probably just a naive little kid, but I never really felt unsafe in Austraka. I mean, I always got spooked in the dark like ...

Ky nodded. “Gathering enough food must be a nightmare… and the spiders and mountain cats.”

Ky shivered. “Good thing I’ll be staying behind these walls.”

“I’ve never been up here for the winter,” Ky said with a shrug. “But it’s already a bit depressing that there’s so little greenery. So probably.”

“I believe so,” Ky agreed. “I don’t know if things hibernate when it’s always cold, though.”

“I don’t know,” Ky admitted, shaking her head as she watched the squirrels dance in the edge of the bushes before disappearing. How pathetic she was, to not know even ...