Chapter 199

• The Plan
• It’s been four days since Leyanne got here, and I still cannot get any kind of read on her. She’s annoyingly distant and still likes to play vague, and although she gives us zero indication that we can’t trust her, it’s always swirling around like an underlying coldness. I don’t know if it’s like Carmen's wall of explainable hostility to keep people at bay. Or if her magic gives her this aura of power and distance, I get severe lonely and empty vibes from her that I can’t quite decipher.
• Not much has happened while we go through the motions of current daily life and plod along. Carmen isn’t showing face often, only in brief passing, and seems to stick to her room which is understandable. Given how much she now has to process while we have downtime. She asked for time to grieve, absorb, and be alone with the pangs of missing her newfound mate and losing her family, and I let her alone. She needs time and understanding. I want to give her two things I never had when I suffered similar things. I feel it’s the least I can do to soften her pain somehow because I feel responsible for all of it even though I know I’m not.