Slade
He stood in his father's office, listening to his father request him to take Dariah into Pheonix on Friday, before he and the boys drove her out to Alpha College. She wanted new clothes to take with her. And was up in her room pouting about her gym wear being worn, and she needed new ones if she was going to be gone all year long. She also wanted a few clothes to wear on those full moons.
That she had requested Slade take her shopping, not her mother, because she wanted to pick his brain on the day trip, about Alpha College, before she went, and what to expect while there. How to avoid being sucked in by coercion even, like he nearly had been. That had made him frown, but he’d let it go.
The girl had been holed up since the last full moon just a week ago and she and Art had not p
