Blackwater Islands Nevermind an SMS.

tell me what that man was speaking to you about, val invited to the brooding stormcloud behind him, relieved she’d acquiesced without much fuss. he anticipated refusal, but she seemed caught off guard if anything — in a way that almost seemed to suggest she didn’t want him there.

seeing her so close to a stranger troubled val; as most things about sapphique’s children did.

he turned an ear back, hoping sobeille’s good will would continue. at least long enough until they returned to sapphique’s stony hearth.