Shady

(haha Ky has no idea what's going on anymore) Ky's stomach growled at that, hunger-reflex coming back now that the self-loathing had -- ever so slightly -- shifted away from ...

"Guess we'll see," she said with a smirk. "It's a race against the dairy, but I feel like I got a decent headstart." She'd just deal with it once it ...

She hesitated, feeling very strongly that she shouldn't tell him that. He'd likely try to ransom her if he knew that she was a Lord's daughter and therefore profitable if ...

She felt awkward under his gaze, getting a flashback to how it was like to recount an account to Aleth when something had happened away from him. The way he'd ...

"I was meant to be a sex slave." Why shouldn't she admit it outright to him? She usually didn't mention that part -- or at the very least danced around ...

She didn't like the idea of her life being a story. But, then, she supposed she'd heard his life story -- all the shame that made him out to be ...

Ky had never built a successful fire in her entire life, despite her father's best efforts at teaching her. But she still did her best to make a little cone ...

Somehow this was exactly like the very first moment she'd met Gaius, when he asked if Tomhas had been telling her terrible tales about him. Only this time, she had ...

Ky didn't know what was coming over her. Was she really making friends with the Marrow Man? She stood up, scooping up the pieces of poultice and also the knife ...

Ky nodded numbly. Yeah, he was dangerous. He was scary. So why did she keep lashing out at him? She wondered if that was another sort of passive self-harm -- ...

"Ash," she murmured. Part of her felt like she shouldn't be telling him this -- but at the same time, it was public knowledge, so why shouldn't she. "Gaius Ash."

"I'm scared of something happening to them," she muttered. "I don't want them to get hurt because of me."

"Both," she sighed, thinking of Wick and Ana. Surely the assassins wouldn't go after them... would they? Probably not. It was probably the Loquiturs and Ashes directly in harm's way. ...

She opened her mouth to argue, then realized there wasn't really anything she could say to counter his point. Now that he'd made it, there was no getting it out ...

Ky gaped at him, horrified at that thought that hadn't crossed her mind even once. "No... No . This fixes it. It has to."