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“I’m so sorry—“
“No need to apologize, Little Cat. Let’s get your teeth brushed and tuck you into bed.”
* * *
For someonewho had spent the evening with her head in the toilet, my Little Cat sat cross-legged on the bed early in the morning looking surprisingly fresh.
“Wakey wakey, I bought bacon,” she sang.
“Are you still drunk?” Charlie asked in a sleep-thick voice as he rolled over.
“I don’t think so.”
“How are you awake and not hungover?”
“Advantages of youth.” She stuck her tongue out.
He glared. “You’ve gotten lippy, and I’m not sure I like it.”
“Zaide does.” She smirked and crawled over to curl into my arms. I squeezed her tight and pressed kisses over her face, and she reached across to the side table to pick up bacon.
“He’s a suck-up.” Charlie pouted.
“He gets bacon first now.” I opened my mouth as she fed me a rasher.
“I don’t think you should play us off one another. That’s how jealousy issues start,” Charlie grumbled and snatched the next rasher she offered to me from her hands.
“You’ve been to check on Baelen?” I asked before they could begin to argue.
She looked back at me and nodded. “He’s still not awake, but his threads are still green. I just hope it means he needs time to wake up like the protector.”
“Let’s focus on what we can control.”
Her lips twisted, and her eyes narrowed in concentration. “Getting the council an image of Fafnir. How can I help?”
* * *
An hour later,Clawdia and I knocked on Savida and Daithi’s cabin and were greeted by a freshly showered demon. “Friends! Come in. Come in.”
Savida chattered about the troubles of washing wings in a compact shower stall as he clicked the kettle and set out some teacups. Daithi joined us only a few moments later. He looked much improved since yesterday but eyed me suspiciously. “You are here early.”
“We assumed from the sound of retching that your visit would be … later.” Savida explained with a cheeky grin.
Pink colored my soul pair’s cheeks, but she waved a hand. “That’s all forgotten now. We’d much rather be productive.”
“You are going to dreamwalk?” Daithi asked.
I shook my head. “No, we are going to induce a vision.”
There was a long silence as he took a sip of his tea, refusing to look at me. Eventually, he said, “I’m uncertain this will yield results.”
“Daithi hasn’t been feeling—“ Savida started.
But I interrupted. “This is the safest option for us all. It will work.”
Daithi hesitated, clearly not believing me, but said, “If you say so.”
“I do.”
