Shady

Jerica scoffed. “Just because you’ve been sulking in your bedroom for the past month doesn’t mean we all have.” She hesitated, realizing that was unnecessarily harsh. “… that is to ...

“Oh yes because everything is exactly as it has been.” She looked at him flatly. “Nothing is different at all.”

Jerica stopped walking again and glared at him. “Oh, so she can make friends with the marrow man and trolls and has all kinds of spooky shit happen to her ...

“No.” She shook her head, then hesitated. “I mean… yeah, but that doesn’t mean it’s not real. If you believe the Seers why not Ky? She doesn’t lie.”

“So was she.” Jerica shrugged again, glancing over at him. “Didn’t you listen to her? She said she told you her father said he wanted you to be her new ...

“Cause he told her.” She shrugged and started walking again.

Jerica furrowed her brow at him. “He wants her to be his herald. And you’re only going to put her in danger if you try to stop him.”

Jerica snorted. “Take that up with Haelar.”

“…Okay?” Why was he arguing if they were agreeing? “Good.”

"Yeah. Well. The gods decided we were gonna do it. And we've gotta travel up to their shrine thingy. But that'll be after the long night... I think. I dunno, ...

(yeah that tracks ^^) Jerica was getting progressively less patient with him. And she already didn't start out with much. "The gods need heralds when they wake up to tell ...

(I'm honestly not sure at this point xD I think you are correct that they were wary to tell him because of his fragile mental health. But even if he ...

Jerica looked at him dumbly. Or, maybe like he was dumb. "... We've got to be here to herald... did you just forget everything that's happened in the past month ...

Jerica furrowed her brow at him. “When the gods wake up.” Why was he so slow? Gods. “You’re evacuating your territory to the East or the South so you don’t ...

That doesn’t surprise me. She managed to keep that to herself. She hesitated for a moment, actually thinking before she spoke for one of the first times in her life. ...