(Caius)
Pryor had left an hour ago, and the office had gone quiet. I usually liked it quiet. Today it just left more room for the same thought to circle.
She's fine. Nothing in the bond said otherwise. I would have felt it if something had gone wrong, the same way I felt everything else about her now, without trying.
It wasn't enough today.
Vorak finally spoke.
'You're not actually working.'
'I'm trying.'
'You're failing.'
'Then say something useful,' I said.
'Useful would be you remembering she's not the girl from that shack anymore.'
I didn't answer right away.
'She's the one who stood in front of sixty wolves and made them bow without asking for it,' he said. 'She doesn't need us deciding she can't manage a morning without us there.'
That landed somewhere I didn't like.
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