Toll returned covered in blood and wearing different clothes.
‘Why didn’t you clean off the blood?’ Psy said. ‘You’re covered in it. Did you forget?’
‘What did I say about warp puddles?’
‘This is goo not puddle.’
‘My mistake,’ Toll said. ‘No more glitter in any form.’
‘I don’t see any glitter,’ Psy said. ‘Balen do you see glitter?’
‘None.’
Toll crossed his arms. ‘With you two there is always glitter. We failed at an intervention because of it remember?’
Yep.
Psy managed to get Valdor on their side and Balen convinced Janus that the intervention was unnecessary.
They then got Azar to fold. When he folded Toll followed.
Thankfully.
Otherwise they might have had to give up glitter.
‘We don’t talk about the intervention,’ Psy said. ‘Maybe you need one for your paranoia.’
‘And why am I like this?’
‘Venty?’
‘That is the official answer.’
‘What’s the unofficial?’ Balen said.
‘I was like this back in D’mt.’
‘When was that?’
‘Don’t age me.’
I’ll look in dad’s library when I get back to the palace.
Psy whispered in Balen’s mind.
‘You brought it up,’ Psy said aloud.
Toll’s eyes narrowed. ‘And what were you two just talking about?’
Come up with a lie.
Why does it have to be him?
Psy! You were supposed to be back… Balen!
Balen blinked as he comprehended the fluffy tiger cub in front of him.
Then it occurred to him how much danger he was in.
‘Hi Leo!’ Balen grinned. He had missed him but his ribs had been injured enough recently. Best let somebody else take the patented Leopard tackle.
‘Can you check on Toll? He exploded again.’
Leopards eyes widened. He whipped his body around.
Toll!
‘Fluffy one,’ Toll scooped Leopard up. ‘How have you been?’
Exhausted.
‘Me too.’
Leopard tackle prevented. Balen’s ribs safe.
The glitter bomb him and Psy had thrown into the warp puddle finally went off.
Erupting in a mess of liquid warp and sparkly blue glitter.
‘I thought it was a dud,’ Psy said.
‘Yeah,’ Balen said.
Pretty.
‘No glitter huh?’
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