Shady

Jerica unbuckled her swordbelt and just dropped it, letting it fall to the ground heavily. Her daggers clattered to the ground on top of it. She pulled the last two ...

"Just lil bits of poison," she agreed, popping to her feet before she even realized that she'd decided to stand up. She needed to snap herself out of it. "Confuses ...

"What's so good about it?" She sniffled, still rubbing away the tears. "It just makes me miss Rek."

"No." But she leaned into his chest anyway. It was like her words knew what to do but her body was rebelling against her anyway.

"Yeah." She furiously scrubbed away the tears that she couldn't hold back. "I'm fine. This isn't like me... it's... the rum."

Tears sprang to Jerica's eyes in an instant and she choked as her throat constricted. She looked away from him and took another long drink of the rum. Stop it, ...

" Rek is..." She sighed, a pang of homesickness running through her chest. Well, not sick for home -- but wishing she could see Rek and Derik and Akie again. ...

Jerica looked at him sympathetically. "I'm sorry you got to that point... I got a bit reckless after they hurt Rek... I wanted to avenge him so I didn't let ...

"Princesses don't need money." She smirked at him. "I've got food and clothes -- I don't need anything else... and I'm not allowed to have anything else, money or no." ...

"I mean..." She rubbed the scar on her hip, thinking about what happened when she didn't do as she was told. She took another drink. "Biryn doesn't hurt me if ...

Jerica took another drink of the rum and looked at him for a long moment. Her tolerance was frustratingly high, but it was starting to take the edge off his ...

Jerica resisted the urge to yank her fist up and bust him in the nose as she'd usually do if someone grabbed her hand like this. Instead, she pulled the ...

"That's what you took from all that? Seriously?" She'd just told him about an entire war, and he was most interested in her fingernail? She took the rum from him ...

"No." She smirked. "I paid for it. Barkeeps don't put a bottle of liquor in your reach until they have the coins in their pocket." Jerica pulled various vegetables out ...

"Meat has to be cooked , Elias," she said a bit more crisply than she'd meant to. She pushed herself to her feet and took a deep breath. He was ...