and I tried to remember how nice it had been
”Then I certainly won’t try,” Vai said with a laugh, shrugging her shoulders. ”I’m more of an advocate of letting Felix choose his own punishments, not that he’s done anything yet worth punishing.” Yet being the key word, given that they currently lived in Torchline where trouble seemed to lurk around every corner.
She glanced up as Nate spoke again about her son, a lopsided smile curling up the edges of her lips. ”No, he’s sharp as a tack,” she assured him. ”He... visited a shrine when he had just learned to walk - about six months ago. By the time I got there a spirit had already got its hands on him. He had... grown up, to the boy you see now.” Vai sighed. ”So in short, I’ve got a teenager and a toddler both at once.”
It sounded ridiculous every time she explained, but that didn’t make it any less true. Raising her eyes to Nate, it would be a lie to say that she didn’t notice his awkwardness, the witch turning back to her task. ”How about you and Sunjata? Do you two want to be parents?”
She glanced up as Nate spoke again about her son, a lopsided smile curling up the edges of her lips. ”No, he’s sharp as a tack,” she assured him. ”He... visited a shrine when he had just learned to walk - about six months ago. By the time I got there a spirit had already got its hands on him. He had... grown up, to the boy you see now.” Vai sighed. ”So in short, I’ve got a teenager and a toddler both at once.”
It sounded ridiculous every time she explained, but that didn’t make it any less true. Raising her eyes to Nate, it would be a lie to say that she didn’t notice his awkwardness, the witch turning back to her task. ”How about you and Sunjata? Do you two want to be parents?”
a long long time ago
but I couldn’t remember
Vervain
