Letha still wanted to ask Wessex her questions, but she moved on with the matriarch. As the woman gestured out to Haulani, Letha simply said, "I like the water." Anything that would give them privacy while overlooking the ocean would suffice for the younger woman. Should Wessex move, she would follow. Her blue eyes briefly danced around those that traveled the city at night, but none of them looked at the two women with any sort of care.
Letha did not want to waste time. She also was not sure of any proper, polite ways to be getting to the information she wanted. So she asked simply, and not carefully. "Wessex, what were you looking for in those books, in that shop, specifically?" Letha had no idea what the woman was up to, but she desperately wanted to know. "Why did you have to break in in the middle of the night?"" Her brows knit together and she looked at Wessex, her focus wholly on her.
L e t h a
Where will I find peace other than in oblivion?
