Everleigh

"They're usually all here by now," she said. "Why does this time feel different?"

"I don't know, Lidia."

Lidia followed the fox and his friend only so far as Istok.

One of her many playgrounds.

I wished I could end her,

but they would end me.

I wished she wouldn't cut her hair like mine.

But didn't she always wear it that way,

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and wasn't she born four centuries sooner, you say?

Time is a fake,

a fraud,

a fallacy.

I wished I could end her.

Or force her to grow out her hair.

"Why do you think they're going to Leberecht?" she asked.

"I don't know, Lidia. Can't you read their minds."

"Obviously, Everleigh. But the priest isn't sure why he's doing anything at the moment—his thoughts are difficult to follow. Something about a key. The other one's sealed tight."

For you, maybe.

I nodded along. "Okay. What do you want from me, anyway."

Lidia was pretty for an ugly girl.

Her eyes looked like honey.

I missed honey.

"I don't know," she said. "I just think this time something feels different."

"You know what would also feel different."

"What?"

"If you left everybody alone."

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