Shady

(I feel like the diaries might be a bit of a slow burn, unless you have urgency with like Gaius remembering lol she’d probably not push her luck for a ...

(Nope, I’ve got nothing else! Where would you like to skip to?)

Zander wasn’t thrilled with this turn of events, and cursed Gaius’s goddamn paranoia more than once as he paced anxiously in his room. He hoped Ky would come. He wouldn’t ...

(I’d think so… Ky would not have calmed down quickly haha)

Ky took a deep breath. She promised to go find Zander. He’d worry himself sick if she didn’t. She changed her shirt, then silently padded into the hall and headed ...

“You as well.” Ky dipped her head.

Was it really that obvious? She nodded with a little smile. “That I am.”

(Haha I gotchu but Ky is still salty at them for creating Aleth and cursing Rönn haha… but those two are good for plot xD) “Thank you.” Ky smiled and ...

Did they, though? What was Aleth good for? What was Michael? “Better.” Ky rubbed her face, wondering if it was still betrayed her tears. “… thank you for talking me ...

“I’m not so sure they’re good either,” Ky whispered, as if the gods would wake up and smite her if she spoke too loud.

“Yes!” Ky agreed vehemently. “They’re all so terrible… not all of them. But the ones who are like the two… three… of them.”

Ky nodded. She’d forgotten Lyra had physically met him rather than just heard of him. “I think… he grew up feeling powerless. So he liked feeling powerful, however he could… ...

Ky cringed and nodded. She was going to read it, if Gaius didn’t explicitly tell her not to. Which he hadn’t. Yet. But it was going to be hard. Her ...

Ky took a deep breath, then sighed and nodded. It was so hard to feel even a little sympathy for the monster. “Almost certainly… Septimus was kind of awful too, ...

Ky nodded in agreement. “Some people would rather make you hurt more rather than working on themselves to make them hurt less. ‘Hurting people, hurt people’.”