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“Now?”

He shook his head. “Tomorrow. I…have some things to think about.”

“Alright. Tomorrow.” She’d have to talk to Ankira and set a time. “Kaliaris will take you up.”

“You aren’t coming?”

She shook her head. “I’m going to stay for a while.”

Kaliaris’s vines bore Tristen away. When he was gone, Nyx settled onto the floor, her back resting against the vine-covered pedestal in the center of Kaliaris’s Heart.

“I want to.” She leaned her head back and closed her eyes. “Tell me a story, K.”

“Yeah. You must have thousands right? Of your people? Tell me about them.”

they began.

She smiled, and couldn’t help but interrupt. “In a galaxy far, far away?”