Shady

Ky sipped on her tea. “How’s yours?” Best to get him hydrated. He’d feel better. (Says the hypocrite: sitting here not hydrating or eating)

“Up the road a few miles. I squat on the back corner of Marge’s property in exchange for helping around her farm.”

Ky reached down and rubbed the pendant Papa carved for her. Would she be able to do anything worth while? Should she try?

“Truly. It’d made things easier.”

“Ah… where do I get those?”

“I don’t think cu-sith can be reasoned with.”

“What?”

(Oh gosh what menaces lol) “Yeah, that’s fair,” Aeron conceded. “Maybe snares?”

“What about for an older kid?”

(What gems lol) “I’m sure.” He nodded. “I wonder if there could be some sort of charm or something to repel the little buggers.”

That wasn’t a no. Not properly. She nodded, trying to think of how to navigate this carefully. “I don’t even know what would go in one, really… I feel like ...

“Ah… you got pests out the ears, huh.”

“Do you… wish that you were? Part of it?”

Aeron furrowed his brow. “What was that?”

“Anything.” She shrugged, using her tea as an excuse not to look at him as she sipped it. Careful. “I know you probably have a… unique perspective on them.”