105. The Mission

~ CASIMIR ~

Jesse looked up at me, her face tight but smooth, like she was stifling laughter.

My advisors rumbled behind us and Jesse’s smile faded when she looked over her shoulder at them, but I was too busy discussing this in the link with them.

‘A game would explain why they are noisy at times,’ Rake sent carefully. I nodded. We’d been confused by that—why sneak and hide, only to cheer and scream every few hours so that the entire wood heard you?

‘But it could be a ruse? She said they don’t usually do it in this area—and we know that’s true,’ Ghere offered.

‘It also explains why they’re all so young.