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His voice, quick to the point, offering no point that he would accept any other answer—and she allowed him that, too tired to reassure he would be just fine without her. Anyone would.

If she had known the direction the conversation would have gone, she might have considered not allowing such a pause between them—Antigone wished to know what happened, and she could feel a moment of silent questioning on her end—hesitant on what to share with a youthful boy verging on adulthood.

To pretend the innocence of it all seemed an insult to his intelligence—to offer the details simply too invasive… and quite frankly, inappropriate. She would settle for somewhere in the middle—but still, her cheeks would heat with a blush. “I went to look for a certain plant I needed… and I ran in to Germanicus. He was upset.”

She paused then, her eyes finding their way to the ceiling of the den, not wishing to see what emotions might play upon the youths face. How harshly he might judge her for her poor judgement. “He… was upset. He was leaving… Mereo, the mountains… And so I gave him a… a goodbye kiss.” In the basest sense. “And that was when we were attacked by the cat." Her lips twisted—rueful, almost. “Cosmic karma, I imagine. None of it should have happened.”