I’m confident we won’t.
“Get your shoes off my fucking comforter.”
“Oh, damn, my bad. Got a little excited about murdering someone.”
I cut a front flip off his bed and he freezes, when he should finish tying his boots.
“Who are we killing?”
“Just some dickhead that has been using his power to create horrid things.”
“So we’re skipping the whole reporting him, fair trail, possible time in Hellveilious?”
“Yep. I’ve already got Creed in on the plan.”
Well…sort of.
“And he agreed?”
“Yep.”
To baking cookies.
Lie out loud. Truth in my mind.
I call that balance.
“So where are we going?”
I clear my throat and whip out my handy-dandy directions that my new friend, the God of Discovery, gave me yesterday. That’s about the time I started obsessing over this little plan of mine.
The second he opened his cheery mouth, I knew that his number one goal was to impress dear sweet Yemi. So all I had to do was present him with a new notebook and a pen that I stole from the Athenaeum and told him she likes to write.
I encouraged him to give it to her as a gift and say it was from him.
He beamed at me like I hung the moon.
I was honest and told him my motivations weren’t purely innocent.
He needed an in with Yemi, and I needed a location.
He obliged easily and highly impressed me with his skills in knowing where someone is.
Kyzen scans the very detailed map, cutting his eyes at me every so often.
“I’ve never been to this part of Godsden. Who would even live this far out?”
“Someone who wouldn’t want to be found or disturbed. Especially during the day.”
“Have you been here? Are you going to be able to starshoot all the way there?”
“No. I’ve been about this far,” I say, pointing to a farm on the outskirts of Godsden. “We’ll have to trek it from there. Shouldn’t take too long, though. Twenty-thirty-minute walk.”
“I haven’t even been that far. I don’t know if I can starshoot to that farm precisely.”
“I will take you both if you wish.”
A silent shriek gets stuck in my throat, and the map goes floating to the floor when Kyzen drops it. V calmly sits on the bed with his head cocked to the side.
