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(Gaius: ffs Zander get your head out of her ass) Ky nodded, not sure how to respond to that. How could she even begin to explain to him how fragile ...

Ky took a deep breath and let it out slowly, nodding. The thought of that conversation was exhausting her already. Or, maybe it was just exhausted in general from her ...

Ky smiled at that, glad that he was crediting her with part of the reconciliation, even though she had nothing in it. She was just running for her life. “I ...

“Everything.” She shrugged, then remembered Papa telling her that the best compliments and expressions of appreciation were specific. Much better to tell a woman that you liked her necklace rather

Ky nodded and stood up, obeying on reflex — but not nearly as hastily or panicked as it had always been before. “… thank you.”

“Perhaps it’s a good thing they all went to sleep,” she said sourly.

Ky sighed, frustrated, yet again, at what a petulant child Builder seemed to be. “He had to have been hungry,” she said, staring into the fire. “It’s not like he ...

Ky considered, then nodded. “I guess that makes sense.”

Ky hesitated, remembering the way he’d utterly decimated the bear. She’d have been nothing but a flea. “… I don’t understand how a goat can be a predator.”

Ky sighed and nodded. “Yeah… that’s probably best.” Ky, trying to make friends with Marrow Man

“Maybe. I’ll ask him, if he can’t remember his name,” she said, contemplating the matter. She’d been wondering most of the walk back how the whole hide-exchange was going to ...

She hesitated. “… no… maybe I shouldn’t make up a name. ‘Marrow Man’ just seems so… so…” she gestured vaguely. “It feels like a mean nickname a bully would give ...

She nodded vigorously, glad that he’d said it so she didn’t have to. And glad that he agreed with her. “If I was a god I’d make sure everyone was ...

“I certainly do…” she nodded. “Hopefully Builder wakes up soon and stops being a—“ Dick. She cut herself off before she said it. If the gods existed, as they apparently ...

“Maybe.” Ky shrugged. “I don’t need a thank you, though. I want him to go be with his family.” Her gaze got distant for a moment, remembering, yet again, that ...