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“Thank you.” Ky nodded, not believing one little bit that Lyra didn’t think about it. They were alike in a lot of ways. And Ky was fairly certain one of ...

Ky nodded, deciding not to push it. “If you ever want to talk, um, well… I… I don’t actually know much. But I’m good at listening. And, um… well… I ...

Ky glanced at her, but didn’t want to make her uncomfortable, so she looked back at her knees. “Oh?”

Ky shook her head, sighing. “You actually have the guts to be who you are. I just have a visceral need to make people like me.”

Ky wasn’t sure what she was referring to, but even just a vague reassurance was nice, she guessed. “You do?”

Ky nodded again and wiped the residual tears away, glad that fresh weren’t taking their place. Yet. Her body felt so, so heavy. So did her heart. And she didn’t ...

Ky hesitated, then nodded. “I don’t want to push it… I already threw kind of a fit about Zander wanting to leave… and then Gaius told me he’s actually the ...

Ky nodded sullenly. “He’s not going to let it be just us, though. He thinks Zander would blackmail him if he knows about this Keep even though he never ever ...

“He doesn’t like Zander,” she grumbled.

(Thanks!) “I just…” Ky sighed and rubbed her face. “I used to be so different. And now I’m like this. And I don’t know how …” She forced herself to ...

(ayeee I just got a place to live! I'm moving cross-country in like a week and a half and it's been a nightmare looking for a place long distance but ...

Ky was quiet for a long moment, nodding slowly. "I just... I don't know."

Ky glanced at her, then looked back at her knees, rubbing her face roughly. Yeah. She supposed that Lyra would. She'd also been stripped from her family to go live ...

Ky struggled with even a task as simple as taking off her shoes, too, and eventually got so frustrated she gave up and just sat down by the wall and ...

Ky took a deep breath and turned back towards the room with a bewildered nod. She'd forgotten the terrifying nature that was this room. Why had she come here? It ...