Shady

“It’d exactly what’s going to happen if you tell him,” she insisted, deciding to give one final attempt. She took a sip, then grimaced and set the tea off to ...

Ky didn’t want to be having this conversation. She glanced at the door. “And then let Gaius go mad having to live here with them.”

She stared at him skeptically. Pratik couldn’t quite blame her. He knew what he was; he had no idea if she did. That is, a mercenary. But one who wouldn’t ...

“… she’d be safe?” Aeron clarified to be sure.

“What makes things harder is intentionally upsetting my father and uncle when we both know there’s nothing at all they can do. If it was a human? Sure. Fine. I’d ...

“We can’t be sure of that.” If Sera was going to make her resort to gaslighting, so be it. She’d certainly joined the family for it.

“Mm…” that wasn’t a horrible idea. “It was just a dream, though.”

“And what will that help?” Ky challenged. “Who in this Keep is physically capable of stopping a ghost?” Except Narfi? She felt ill again.

Aenyra gave a snort of jealousy and Aeron chuckled and gave her another pat.

“Yeah.” Ky lied, deciding to switch her strategy. “Honestly, the longer I’m awake the more I think maybe I was having a nightmare since I just talked to Gaius about ...

Aeron nodded and set to untacking his mount, being liberal with the pats of affection as he did so. “Alright, be good, precious. We’ll be back in a bit.”

Ky hesitated, then shook her head. “No. I promised I’d go to meals.”

Ky hesitated. “I mean… he wouldn’t be able to get in… but it’d lure them straight to your room.” She shook her head. “I’m bait. It’s why you both should ...

“…you already had the door to your room changed,” Ky slowly remembered, but didn’t look up. “The lock.”

(Haha this is true — I ended up with like 40 lol) “No problem,” Aeron said, turning to loosen Aenyra’s girth. “This’ll do just fine.”