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aCooooig: Christ, are you safe?
Troy: Don’t insult her.
Lodestar: Of course she’s safe. It’s Dead To Me!
Dead To Me: I’d take a bow, but the only person who can see me is Foundry. Smythe’s eyes got eaten yesterday.
aCooooig: Oh Christ. I’m about to eat. I don’t need that imagery even if they fucking deserve it.
Troy: Don’t be a wimp.
aCooooig: I think I’ll accept that title for this conversation.
**aCooooig changes name to Wimp**
**Lodestar changes Wimp’s name to aCooooig**
Lodestar: You’re not a wimp. It’s not a bad thing to be intolerant to people’s faces being eaten by wild animals lol.
Lodestar: D, they’re dead, right?
Dead To Me: Foundry's got a couple hours left in him. Max. Not surprised this happened so fast tbh. They were literally open wounds. But the temperatures are frigid so I think they’re gonna freeze before the local animals get to enjoy a good meal.
Dead To Me: It’s a shame we couldn’t invite a scientist to this party to monitor what killed them first. There’s probably some kind of life lesson here.
aCooooig: Don’t piss off spies?
Lodestar: Hahahaha.
Lodestar: Right, we’re heading for Sunday dinner. So fuck off.
Dead To Me: I expect details.
Lodestar: You’ll get ‘em.
Lodestar: Stand by for evacuation, D.
Dead To Me: Copy that.
Troy: Later, fuckers.
20
STAR
After jumping out of the Mini Cooper, I stretched with no small amount of relief even as I stared at the O’Donnelly ‘homestead.’
Sunday dinner—a sacrosanct affair amid the O’Donnellys.
So sacrosanct, in fact, that Aoife’s first declaration of rebellion against the patriarchs of the family was to skip this meal permanently.
Funny how a family’s traditions could be so different.
The Sullivans didn’t have a similar tradition. Was that a weakness I’d never spotted before? Were a family’s traditions what set them apart and what bound them together?
“Why so pensive?”
I blinked at Conor over the roof of his Mini Cooper. “No reason.”
