Nyx sat up before dawn.
Faelyn kept her eyes closed, her breathing slow, and her expression doing absolutely nothing.
She had been awake for two hours.mm
She knew everything Renn had sent.
She was going to lie here and pretend she didn't, because explaining how she knew had exactly zero good destinations and she was not in the mood to navigate any of them at four in the morning.
'This is fine,' she thought. 'I am a completely normal person waking up naturally right now. I know nothing. I slept beautifully. I am well rested and blissfully unaware of all recent developments.'
[You checked on the cubs four times,] Puffball said cheerfully.
'I was being thorough. Especially with the gold one, they all needed a good talking to, don't you think?'
[You rehearsed your surprised face. TWICE, Fur.]
'I did not—'
[The second one was better. You overcorrected the eyebrows on the first one. Very suspicious eyebrows.]
'I genuinely cannot stand you.'
