Slade
Dariah was quiet for a long moment, and then she sighed heavily down the line at him before murmuring, “I didn’t know all that you were going through. I’m sorry, Slade. I wish you had confided in me more.”
“I couldn’t. I needed to keep you out of it,” he told her gently.
“Still, it’s a lot for you to have gone through, and to handle, much more than I understood.” She sighed once more. “Have you been able to talk to Ori yet?”
“No, but we have a dinner set up Monday night, myself, my unit. Ana and all her sisters. I’d just like for it to be a proper introduction to all of them. They are still scent-masked, I need to know exactly what is going on, even Ocean smells human like they all do.”
“W... What? Did Ori lose China because of what all of our parents did to her?” she sounded a
