Wandering Merry

“What do you sacrifice?”

“Calm. Kindness. Kinship. Love. I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I burn my decency for someone else's future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see.”

Karaoke night on the Hail Mary!

“How long have Grace and Eva been mates, question?” Rocky asks.

Eva and Grace jump apart so quickly from where they were touching as if a bolt of electricity zapped them. 

“No...um…no…we…uh…” Grace flounders with his words, face bright pink with embarrassment. 

“See you when you wake up!” Grace grimaces. “Wait, that sounds like I’m a stalker. Like I’m watching you.” Somehow his face gets redder and he starts stammering more. “I mean…uh…of course I’m not doing those things. I just mean…um…goodnight, Stratt!”

Grace stumbles into the hallway wall as he turns away from her, muttering to himself, before escaping around the corner of the Vat’s corridor. 

“That man has it bad,” Carl muttered as he appeared next to Stratt. 

“Has what bad?” Eva asks.