Welcome to Stories from Among the Stars.

You're listening to Legends and Lottays by Travis Baldry.

26.

She slept in Tandry's room, waking intermittently to attend to necessities, although

Viv insisted on taking a blanket and lying on the floor, she was

used to it anyway.

Her awareness of Tandry's comings and goings was hazy at best.

On what she thought might have been the third day, a knock came at the door.

Viv heard Tandry moving to open it, a quiet exchange of words, and then

someone entered.

She heard them pat across the floor boards.

Hmm.

Viv opened her eyes and half turned over.

Cowl stared down at her with his arms crossed, and she felt suddenly foolish and angry,

lying there and exposing her weakness to him.

In years past, she would have cursed herself as a fool for giving a foe such an advantage,

such carelessness would have killed her a hundred times over.

But Cowl was not her enemy.

The hob drew up the chair and sat, his legs too short for his feet to reach the floor.

He clasped his hands between his knees, looking away and giving her a moment to push into

a sitting position.

Cowl, she rasped and nodded.

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