Shady

Jerica traced her fingers across the image. Was Strithr tangible? Did they look like this all the time or was it fluid? What would it be like to work for ...

Jerica studied each carefully. Pictures usually stuck in her brain better than words did.

She should probably talk to Derik about this, at some point. But she didn’t know how she was going to get him alone to do so. And she didn’t want ...

Jerica decided she should get that part copied. She was too tired to try to read it all now.

It was dizzying. She read through this list quickly. How was she supposed to represent someone who was both everything and nothing? Why couldn’t they just herald themself if they ...

Jerica might be biting off more than she could chew, getting involved with someone like this. She chewed on a callus on her thumb as she kept reading.

“What the fuck?” She murmured under her breath in Rhaebakian, brow furrowed, forgetting where she was and entirely unaware of Ash watching her. That sounded creepy as fuck — and ...

The more Jerica read, the more she got confused. Many entities that made one? What, like algae? She decided that was the closest thing she was going to get to ...

Jerica’s brow furrowed in concentration as she made it through the table of contents then flipped to one of the chapters that seemed most promising. Reading was hellish at baseline. ...

“Hmm…” she wasn’t sure how much she’d be able to get out of him rather than him just pitch suspicious questions about why she wanted to know what she wanted ...

She blinked. That was an abrupt change of topic. What an odd man. She nodded and sat in one of the nearby chairs that didn’t have a table in front ...

She grinned, even more proud of herself now that he’d complimented her as well. And amused by how off put he seemed by it. It’s not like he was some ...

“Uh… I mean… I dunno.” She shrugged, weirded out that this is what he got hung up on and yet pleased he didn’t seem to notice her disgust before she ...

(Lmao Jerica out here breaking Gaius) “…do what?” She blinked at him.

Jerica wrinkled her nose at that before she caught herself, and quickly furrowed her brow to try to play it off as contemplation rather than disgust. “Hm… I mean I ...