My spores been growing by the day; my days been shining bright
They are both very comfortable, as it happens, but especially Mateo who has managed to successfully capture a very fiendish plant from the Feverlands. He is busy wondering who might win should he pair a Devil's Klaw and a vampire gourd against one another when Ever (who, as far as Mateo can gather, has been engaging in his regularly scheduled mutterings in his notebook) blurts out a game changer.
The boy doesn't stop, at least, but there is definite shock on his face as he realises what Ever is saying, and his shoulders slump a bit. "Oh," he says, because for all that Mateo is, he also knows the boundaries between his own parents - and between Ever's - and for them to say things like have to implies there is no room for negotiation.
"Oh," he says again. "Well I... I suppose you will have to go, won't you?" Everest Hart doesn't do things like sneak out of Safe Havens, after all.
The boy doesn't stop, at least, but there is definite shock on his face as he realises what Ever is saying, and his shoulders slump a bit. "Oh," he says, because for all that Mateo is, he also knows the boundaries between his own parents - and between Ever's - and for them to say things like have to implies there is no room for negotiation.
"Oh," he says again. "Well I... I suppose you will have to go, won't you?" Everest Hart doesn't do things like sneak out of Safe Havens, after all.
mateo!
