girls can be dangerous and still win
The yelp inspired another wicked grin across her features, watching the turn of Aithne’s facial expressions as they morphed from hackles raised to recognition – clearly only bothered if it had been someone else committing the water balloon crime. “Come on up! What brings you out this way?” she hollered from on high, ignoring the way some of the merchants glanced, rolled their eyes, or simply pretended not to notice. After all, the Honeybee’s shenanigans were nothing new.
But the Ancient wasted no time in scaling portions of walls and shimmying her way up the roof, so by the moment she’d reached the platform Melita was patting a spot of warm shingle beside her. Tilting her head, she snorted, gaze going out towards the indicated individual. One of those smarmy, haughty looking dudes – peacock-esque. Not a favorite.
Instead of doing the honors though, she passed one of the balloons over to Aithne, the enabling, encouraging grin following suit. “By all means. Go for it.”
But the Ancient wasted no time in scaling portions of walls and shimmying her way up the roof, so by the moment she’d reached the platform Melita was patting a spot of warm shingle beside her. Tilting her head, she snorted, gaze going out towards the indicated individual. One of those smarmy, haughty looking dudes – peacock-esque. Not a favorite.
Instead of doing the honors though, she passed one of the balloons over to Aithne, the enabling, encouraging grin following suit. “By all means. Go for it.”
Melita
she knew exactly what she was doing when she invited the wild in
