Eilish and Turk hand the body over without comment, looking nervously at each other and then to the Queen, as if she might rain hell on their heads for bringing her bad news. Turk gets a glimpse of the Wraith’s face (their sight will never be as good as hers is in the dark), and he’ll swear up and down that he saw tears there. Or whatever it is that Ascended leak.
Her tone, her gentleness with the body, her solemn thank you temper their fears and their perceptions. Ald even dips his head and manages a “Yer… welcome?” before Wessex disappears into the house and the door shuts behind her. However the three men waste no time in leaving, practically bolting away from Theskyra House and back into the dark, back to Ald’s house, where they can drink some more and sort their mushrooms and live to tell the story to others tomorrow, their own personal run-in with the Ascended demigod.
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Her tone, her gentleness with the body, her solemn thank you temper their fears and their perceptions. Ald even dips his head and manages a “Yer… welcome?” before Wessex disappears into the house and the door shuts behind her. However the three men waste no time in leaving, practically bolting away from Theskyra House and back into the dark, back to Ald’s house, where they can drink some more and sort their mushrooms and live to tell the story to others tomorrow, their own personal run-in with the Ascended demigod.
{Fin}
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