Shady

Might have considered going back down if you'd asked me to . Jerica didn't bother answering. Instead, she swung the rest of the way onto the branch. She still had ...

Rage flooded through Jerica. One, at the audacity of this bitch to try to push her off the branch. And two, at the realization that she was fucked if Eve ...

Jerica sprang to her feet in an instant, balancing on the narrow branch recklessly. She leapt forward and grabbed the branch Eve was on -- with barely enough height to ...

'Don't do anything rash' Jerica mouthed, mockingly. "Yes, Mother." She twisted so she could see what Eve was going to pull out of the package overhead.

Jerica looked up at a rustling in the branches overhead, and at Eve's voice. The package seemed more interesting than the dinky little trinket in her own hands. "Useless... what's ...

"That would be better," Pratik agreed. He felt himself getting jealous that Lillian was standing there with a kitten when he wasn't holding one. But his pride wouldn't let him ...

Jerica sat in silence for a long while, listening to the snarling of the wolves down below. She was too weary to have the energy to think any more about ...

That went better than she'd expected. Jerica took a deep breath and slowly let it out, trying to let a bit of the tension slip away from her shoulders. They ...

“Uh, no, it’s fine.” Pratik cleared his throat. This wasn’t going how he expected. No sneers. No teasing. No pulling out her phone right away to gossip or take a ...

"Oh, uh... yeah." Pratik was surprised by the transition, but glad not to linger on the fact that Lillian had caught him literally baby-talking kittens. Of all the horrifically embarrassing ...

"Hey beautiful, no, no," Pratik cooed, wrangling one of the kittens. "You gotta stay here where it's warm." Pratik had a strange feeling that he wasn't alone anymore. Paranoia, no ...

Pratik was glad to get back to work. For one, it gave him something to do. For another, it afforded him... well... it allowed him to afford things, which was ...

"... were you though?"

"What?" Derik gaped at him. "You have were--?" It almost felt like he was baiting Derik. To make Derik admit to not being from this realm and ask about werewolves ...

Derik snorted loudly but it broke into a laugh. "Ah, man, you figured me out... how 'bout you?"