“Anywhos, back to the issue. Where the hell are we all supposed to sleep? You’ve got the other four assigned to the other two bedrooms.”
“Obviously, we’ll stay in the largest room together. It’s either that or we get incredibly cramped spaces. I know two of you who would thoroughly hate that. There’s no wiggle room to make it any larger, only shrink the current design. This is nearly at capacity for what the Veilatara are comfortable with, so I was trying to utilize the max space available.”
Shit, their ability to pull and fly the carriage slipped my mind completely.
Kyzen steps toward the desk as well, observing what the other three are staring daggers at. He runs his finger in a circle, I assume around the problem bedroom.
“Is there any way to shrink the largest room and make two more right here? Or cut the size of the largest room back and create a room Creed and Riven can share?”
Amick’s scowl deepens, although he nods. “To give you two your own rooms will leave your space smaller than you prefer, Riven. We could cut into this area of the kitchen, half the larger room, and make the bathroom adjoining.”
“That’s too small.”
“That kitchen wouldn’t be functional for nine people.”
Huh, so it’s Riven who has a problem with small spaces.
I wonder if Creed does. Surely Amick doesn’t know I have an issue with that as well. I’ve never once mentioned it…
The four of them fall silent as they observe the plans like it’s the realm’s greatest mystery. With a loud huff, I finally get out of my seat and squeeze between Creed and Kyzen so I can look at it myself.
It’s fine the way it is.
Fuck, it’s not like we’re taking a luxurious vacation.
“Is it really that big of a deal that the five of us share a room?”
Their gorgeous, matching faces all turn toward me.
I see the issue now.
For some idiotic reason, I pictured this as no different than how our current living situation is. I definitely should’ve put more thought into the fact that there will be no privacy. I’ll be showering, sharing…fuck, possibly snoring in the same bed as them.
Before I can say never mind, Riven grabs the plans and rolls the parchment up.
“We’ll make it work.”
Great.
“Creed, you know what you’re responsible for, as do you Kyzen. We’ll finalize our details at home. Rose, Lambrit, this is a list of locations and gods I’d like youto be well-versed in. Also, these reports are from the other regions. Read them and take note of any mentions of godly powers being used.”
With an eager smile, Lambrit takes both parchments and without another word, he leaves the office like he can’t wait to begin. Rose follows along behind him with a wave and whispered “see you later” to us.
“What do you have planned for Yemi and me?”
“Your lesson on powers starts now.”
Oh…fucking lovely.
It took ten minutes for me to regret telling Amick I was done with lessons for the day and to skip right to power training.
He’d already told me days ago, before the unfortunate meeting with their sperm donor, that he planned on explaining first how the Gods Binding truly releases power and what the power is doing to my body before he tried to have me do anything more than cut lights on or off.
The second he started talking, though, I cut him off and told him I couldn’t deal with any more information.
I was still worked up from the High Chancellor’s taurnshit, the formal request nonsense, and the carriage debacle. I just wanted to release some energy in the form of working with my power.
Another way would’ve been nice as well, but I didn’t think Yemi or the others would’ve appreciated getting kicked out so I could have a quickie.
