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Kyda ate slowly, and gradually, her heart calmed in her chest. “No wonder Kynor was so irritable. This feels like I am housing a horse race.”
Nandy used a scanner and nodded. “Your body is adjusting. More muscle attachments are forming so you don’t rip yourself apart when you lift heavy objects.”
“Oh. That. Right. Yeah, my brother’s tendon attachments and bone density are impressive.”
Nandy’s eyes widened. “Right. Calcium. I want you to eat half that block of cheese in the chiller while I place an order for supplements.”
“Wait. Do they deliver stuff to you?”
“Ados does, provided that things are neutral. You are going to be eating a lot of dark greens.”
Kyda groaned. “I don’t like them.”
“Tough. You are going to have a rough few weeks then. Now, get up and start eating until you don’t want to anymore. I have sandwich fixings you can have. Go eat the chiller.” Nandy smiled.
“Okay. I feel a little lightheaded. I think some more food is right up my alley.”
Kyda eased off the bed and slowly made her way back up the steps. She felt heavy. It was hard to move. She got into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Cheese was the first casualty, and from there, she just kept eating, making food, and eating again. When she finished, there were more fruit tarts and two dozen tiny quiches.
Full, she headed up for a nap and lay down. Time to sleep again. She couldfeelher body changing under her skin and would like to sleep through it.
A cup of coffee was next to her, and she could feel the heat coming from it, as well as smell each individual note of rich, acidic, bitter, and dark. She sat up and blinked at the different smells in the room. “Wow.”
She was in a nightgown. “Oh. Okay.”
She drank the coffee in one long gulp and headed for the shower. There was an unsettling scent in the room, and she felt it was clinging to her.
Out of the shower, the scent was gone, and she smiled as she brushed her hair and then braided it. That would have been embarrassing.
Kyda headed downstairs to get more food and wash her mug before obtaining more coffee. She froze near the stairway when she heard a familiar voice. Her patron. Ados.
“Kyda, stop lurking around the corner, dear. Ados has stopped by with extra supplies and those supplements you need.”
Kyda sighed and crept cautiously around the corner. “Oh. Hi.”
Ados straightened when she came around the corner. Nandy smirked as she watched her grandson.
The look on Nandy’s face brought heat to Kyda’s face. “Ados, thank you for bringing me here.”
He bowed. “It was my pleasure. It will also keep Kynor calm and functioning.” He smiled. “We went out and used exactly the right amount of force on some actives.”
Kyda snorted. “That is how he solves everything.”
Ados chuckled. “It was my idea.”
“Oh, great. Two of you.”
Nandy laughed. “Ados brought a picnic, and he was delighted to find out that you have prepared tarts. If you bring the tarts, I will bring the drinks and the cloth, and he will bring the basket. We can all have a picnic.”
Her face went hot when she heard the word picnic, but she moved mechanically to get the items ready. Ados and Nandy went out ahead of her, and when she was done, she took a deep breath and walked out of the house.
The mist surrounding the land that the house sat on was a slippery silver. It was thinner at the top but dense on the sides. There was a gentle slope leading away from the house, and on that slope, Ados and his grandmother were laying out the picnic, and she walked over to join them.
She sat down as far away from them as she could and put the container of tarts as close to the food as she could.
Nandy chuckled. “Why don’t you sit closer to Ados, Kyda?”
Kyda bent her head and caught a whiff of that weird scent. She shook her head. “No, Nandy. I am not really comfortable.”
