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She nodded. “Probably good, then…” she has a fresh spike of anxiety as they stepped out on the second floor. “… why are we going to your office?”

“Any other kids?”

All three of them furrowed their brows in confusion. “Is… it clothing?” Ky asked after a moment.

She cringed and nodded. “…At least not until the war is over, I guess… but you don’t usually go much anyway, right?”

“But you’ve got Tove and a husband?”

“Was it ever alive?” Rifkin asked.

“…true,” Ky acknowledged with a hesitant nod. “But still.” That raised an interesting point, though. Perhaps her township would attack Makata these days, now that he’d taken all of the ...

(Ew gross bad pupper) “Is it alive?” Talia asked.

Ky shook her head in disagreement. “No, they were out of line. We’d have never done something like that to Makata in my township — I don’t know where they ...

“I suppose the forest wouldn’t claim you as her child, either,” she tsked.

(Oh well. Suppose it’s better than actually being late to work lol but it wasn’t a nice way to wake up. OH NO WHY IS IT DAYLIGHT I—) “Is it ...

Ky grimaced. “Yeah… that wasn’t… good…”

Ki’nuu nodded, dragging her fingers across a moss-covered boulder as she kept walking.

Ky shook her head. “I’ve not been back to the village… have you heard anything?”

(Nope. That’s why I’m annoyed lol entirely unwarranted panic and woke me up 2.5 hours early when I was gonna sleep in today) Talia smiled a little and dipped her ...