Chapter 458

• Konner dropped his bag on the floor and went into his bathroom. Turning on the shower, he started stripping his clothes off. He felt like he had been crawling through sludge and grim the past two days, metaphorically for the most part, but he needed to physically wash it off. Opening the panel beside the shower, he flipped the valve over so it would be raining freshwater down on him and not processed water from the tanks. He wanted to go for a swim, but he didn’t have time for that right now, so this would have to tide him over.
• Stepping under the spray, he closed his eyes and let the water run down him. The whole time he’d been away his mind had driven him to absolute distraction thinking about Terah. Wondering if she was doing all right, picturing her in his pool singing, he could hear her song still playing on a loop inside his head. Sighing, he opened his eyes to see his skin was changing like it would if he was swimming and not showering.
• Gritting his teeth, he focused to force it to go back. Complete fucking distraction. He hadn’t had that problem since he was a teen, it was ridiculous, that he couldn’t control his body. That’s just what he needed, to be standing in the rain with the team and his normal-looking epidermis changing to the thick, porous scales of his kind. He doubted any of the team would suddenly grow fur or whatever if they were distracted.