Shady

Ky glanced at them, then looked back at her knees. If she sent them away, she was going to be stuck in here alone with Gaius. If she asked them ...

Ky settled back in the pillows and glanced at the men around her, then furrowed her brow and stared at her knees. There wasn’t any way at all to fix ...

“I’m fine,” she said sourly. It felt like she was a magnet and just kept pulling together more and more links of her humiliation.

“I’m alive.” She supposed she’d let him attach a value judgment to that statement. It was negative in her eyes, but apparently no one else’s.

Ky nodded slightly. That spark was going to be the end of them all. Aleth had brought her to the brink of death multiple times in an attempt to extinguish ...

He also clearly didn’t see that her having survived it was a problem, not a fortune. “I wouldn’t have had the courage to use one regardless.” She had been 100% ...

Ky sighed at that. She’d succeeded at putting everyone at prolonged risk is what she’d done. And she wished she could take it back. To have planted her feet and ...

Ky was quiet for a moment. She hadn’t thought about it that way. She regretted running, now. But she supposed that she had managed to protect herself enough until Tomhas ...

She sighed, collapsing against him, resigned to her fate. How dare he try to compliment her at a time like this? She’d dragged him out of bed to carry her ...

Ky looked at him miserably, then dropped her gaze, sighing. “I’m sorry.”

She swayed, her stomach turning itself over. She felt green. Her body felt much, much too hot now and there was sweat clinging to her cold face. She closed her ...

“Gods,” she sighed under her breath, rubbing her face tiredly. This was humiliating. And she’d done it to herself. She should have just had a cookie and bled out upstairs. ...

“I can walk,” she muttered. But she couldn’t. She stood glaring at the steps in front of her, clinging to the railing for dear life. It felt like the will ...

Ky didn’t respond to that. She felt herself start creeping towards dissociation again. She wasn’t quite there — but she felt herself calming and getting more withdrawn at the knowledge ...

“I just keep turning into a bigger and bigger burden.” She rubbed her face, angry that she couldn’t stop the tears. “I don’t know how to stop.”