Shady

Ky wandered for a while longer, working up the courage to go find Elise. She didn’t particularly want to have to ask for help. But she could search a full ...

“Thank you.” Ky smiled and nodded to her, then took a step away, satisfied with the interaction.

“I don’t think so.” Ky shook her head and smiled. “Thanks for taking the time to talk with me.”

Ky nodded. There was so much to unpack there. The impulse to assert her ability to handle grim things. The feel that she should comment on Ingrid’s comment about Gaius. ...

“I’m sure.” Ky nodded once. It’d be painful. It’d make her even angrier at Michael than she already was, angrier than she was at Aleth. But she needed to know. ...

“I think I’d be interested in more recent history,” Ky said. “Things that would have directly impacted Tomhas or Gaius, so I can understand a bit more…”

“I’m definitely interested in recommendations,” Ky said. “The stories you must know…” (Ky: gremlin, squirreling diaries within hours of arrival to drink all the tea Gaius: -_- )

“Yes, ma’am.” Ky smiled and dipped her head. “I feel like I’m very behind in what I should know by now.”

Ky nodded, trying to think of a way to keep a good thing going. She had a fount of knowledge in a chatty mood and she had no intentions of ...

Somehow asking one of them seemed much worse. It felt like Tomhas would be much more likely to strike up casual conversation with staff in his home for literally no ...

“Oh… I don’t think I knew that,” Ky said with a nod, putting together the pieces into a neat little timeline. “… did Tomhas do a similar purge of staff, ...

Ky nodded. That seemed fitting. A reunion of friends that they all deserved. “And Tomhas came back with him? And Sara and Anneke?”

Ky nodded. A rather anticlimactic story. “How did Gaius hear about it to know to come back? Did someone here know where he was all along?” That seemed wildly unsafe ...

“Oh, I’m sure,” Ky agreed grimly. Gaius was treating Zander like a prisoner — she couldn’t imagine what he’d do to an actual criminal. Well. She could imagine. But she ...

Ky forced the shock off her face. She didn’t want Ingrid to stop talking. She had to play her cards right. Even though she was absolutely horrified by everything that ...