something and spoke again. “I’d invite you to stay for supper, but frankly we haven’t any food and I don’t feel like feeding you. Surely you have a place to go?”
“Yes,” I answered before Rio could say anything. “Thank you.”
Kewyn nodded before she looked at me very seriously and said, “I’d suggest staying inside tonight.”
“Why’s that?”
“Well, one, there’s going to be even more guards searching for your dragon-kin tonight. Six people went missing last night.”
“A soldier telling us to dodge the law?” Rio purred, taunting her.
“Six people?” I said. For a moment, my heart sunk. Surely the kin could not be responsible for that.
“I don’t think it was your friend,” she said as if the words hurt her to say. “But it does not matter what I think. Stay inside, and stay safe. Good night.”
She waved before disappearing down the narrow path around the side of the house.
It seemed like a good time to head back to the inn, have some dinner and fall into bed. Despite only waking up a few hours before, I felt dead on my hooves.
Trying to wake myself up, I stretched and muttered, “Well, that was fun.”
Rio laughed.
“What? You seemed to be enjoying yourself.”
“I did nothing of the sort,” the half-blood said with a grin.
“Aaah, annoying poor Kewyn Aenlilea not enough for you?”
“I do not ‘annoy,’ m’lady, I simply ‘pester’.”
“There’s a difference?”
The kin was silent on the way back to the inn, though Rio and I bickered back and forth about how he should go about dealing with Kewyn.
“You should be nicer to her. I know you can be a gentleman,” I suggested.
“Tch,” was the reply I got.
“What? You don’t believe me? I am a woman you know, I know these things.”
I wondered if we were being very obnoxious, but Levent just stared ahead without much thought to our conversion. If he was listening, he did not have any input for the matter.