@pluresque.
for essek.
veth has gotten better at keeping an eye on luc – at least one eye, most of the time – but it’s undeniably more convenient for yeza to look after him when she’s got other students around. any time she feels like maybe she wants another kid, she turns around and one of them has scarpered off toward a dangerous substance she’s told them not to handle without her help, and that rebukes the baby fever real quick. she can barely catch her breath, let alone catch up to a hypothetical new baby.
but there are other reasons, other places, besides the adventurers’ school, for being glad that luc and yeza aren’t always at her side. that they aren’t at her side right now. because yeza didn’t want to visit caleb with her, knowing who else would be there. and she hasn’t forgotten why.
veth combs her silky hair over her shoulder with her fingers and begins to plait it, to have something to do with her hands. she isn’t feeling shy, not really. just thoughtful. “i hope you don’t plan on keeping him to yourself this summer. i’ve got dibs back in nicodranas.”