Shady

“I’m not crazy,” she repeated, vaguely aware that the more she insisted the less he was likely to believe her. “He’s real.” She held up her pinky, revealing the thin ...

“He said I didn’t really wanna die or I wouldn’t be scared.” She pulled her cloak tighter around herself. “I guess he knows I’m scared… but he gave me bear ...

She looked at him, then back at the fire, feeling the need to justify herself before she even tried telling him her story. “I don’t lie. And I’m not crazy.”

(Haha, Ky: *brain very smol*) “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” She also shrugged. “I wouldn’t believe me, if I wasn’t me.”

“I did,” she countered, looking up at him and wishing, yet again, that she could tell someone about… Mark.

Ky looked at him, then back at the fire. It wasn’t a question. He didn’t need her to agree. He was right and they both knew it. “It was a ...

Ky nodded. It was a reasonable demand.

“No.” She stared into the fire for a long moment before she looked up to meet his gaze, shrinking a little as she did so. “I decided that when I ...

She shivered at that, contemplating the thought of getting strung up in a spider web somewhere. Did northern spiders even have webs? She still had very little concept of what ...

“I didn’t go to a village,” she said, even though he’d literally just said that he was impossible to have done so. She hesitated, realizing he was gonna keep pushing ...

“I didn’t think you’d hear him,” she said lamely, not actually answering the question.

“I don’t know.” She shrugged, wishing she could tell him, but she couldn’t. “Thinking, I guess.”

(Haha all good! You don’t have to make up a name for him, Ky is just going to keep theorizing haha) She pulled her cloak a bit tighter around herself, ...

“That’s good.” She nodded. He didn’t know the Marrow Man was real. He couldn't know that, unless he met him face to face as she had. And she doubted Gaius ...

She blinked, looking at him for a moment. Right. He hadn’t had the same threat made against him. “I don’t know.”