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She pulled her arms tighter around her legs. “…I don’t know… maybe… once I go home, though. This isn’t something that should go in a letter.”

“We don’t all sleep with my mother’s husband.” The way she said that felt very, very wrong and she shuddered. “That’s not what I meant—“

“Yeah…” she sighed.

She nodded. “Because you’re reasonable.”

Ky sourly put her chin on her knees. “I’m sure Anneke got checked and… it’s not my business anyway… it’s just… the principle.”

“Of course. Because you can’t be. Which is why you’re not supposed to cheat on your partner!”

“Oh my.” Talia dipped her head.

“Yeah.” Ky furrowed her brow. “It’s a miracle he didn’t… if he didn’t. Sometimes it’s hard to know right away. What if that’s what made this last pregnancy so hard ...

“Ahh… I’ll keep an eye out for her tomorrow, then.” Talia smiled a little. “What does she look like?”

“Because they’re sluts,” she pouted, though she didn’t mean it even as she said it. “And what’s Tomhas doing, going around putting his… in… and… he’s going to get a ...

“Is she here at the Keep?”

“No.” She furrowed her brow. “But if she’s from the territory then she knows Tomhas is married; and if she’s not a prostitute then she didn’t have to. So she’s ...

Talia smiled. “I liked her a lot.”

(Haha that’s fair! And that would still work yeah cause Tomhas is so much younger than Gaius that it could still be a “hey rescued this cute kid” but it ...

Talia shrugged. “I don’t know. She was this really weird, really old woman that scared most of the kids but she was actually really nice and would let Ky and ...