Shady

Ky furrowed her brow. “Can’t you make them stop?”

“Oh?” Ky looked at him curiously. They all seemed a bit crazy to her.

(Oop haha) “Oh.” She glanced across the market. “And that’s who they are?”

“Who is the woman with the cart?” Ky murmured, voice low so she wouldn’t be overheard and keeping her gaze off the cart so there was no chance the woman ...

Ky took all this in with wide eyes, being exceedingly careful not to make eye contact with any of them. Best to observe from a distance. A far distance. She ...

(Cool!) Markets were so novel to Ky still. Exciting. Lively. So many people and products and nice things to see and smell and — when the intrusive thoughts got the ...

(That’s true!) (And okay cool! … at this point I don’t really remember where they were xD do you wanna skip to them browsing vendors? And do you want Tomhas ...

(Nice! It’s tough. I have people who have petitioned me to change some of the names in my novel because I was somehow totally oblivious to how similar the consonants ...

(Sad! Have you picked new ones yet?) (And to be fair he thinks Gaius is being stupid not is stupid. But uh. Yeah. He’s gonna… have a lot of pauses ...

“Thank you.” Derik inclined his head to him, then to Sara, then pulled the door open. They’d see if he kept his word. He had no doubt he’d prep his ...

“Sounds good.” Derik strode towards the door, then hesitated. “…I would appreciate the opportunity to explain the situation to your brother myself.” Hopefully Ash followed Zander’s wishes

(Aww that’s great!) “…I would assume?” Derik glanced towards the door. “They’re your men — people — not mine. I don’t know.”

“Me either.” Derik emptied his cup. “I know exactly what this was.” He held his cup in the air, then leaned forward to set it on Ash’s desk. A — ...

(Yeah it scared me a lot… relaxing more now) “Very well.” Derik took another drink of his mead, emptying more of the cup. “Anything else?”

“Good.” He nodded. “That’ll work… do you know when they’ll return?”