(Nisha)
“A task?” I asked after too long.
“Yes,” Soleil said without looking back at me.
“How long will she be gone?” I tried to say nonchalantly.
“I’m unsure, as long as it takes,” Soleil replied.
That familiar annoying unsurity settled in, but it was quickly replaced by confusion and the sharpness of anger.
She wouldn’t have left. I knew a few things to be true in this lifetime, but I knew that. She wouldn’t have left.
I didn't entertain the errant fuzzy thought that tried to tell me it was a trap. I believed Zephyr to my core, and I had to trust myself now.
I had nothing else, no one else.
I waited around as long as I could keep my motions fluid and not riddled with the restlessness I felt. I sat by the fire and slowly drank my tea, adding another log.
“I’m going to wa
