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Reaching over, I gave his hand a squeeze I knew he had a lot of hangups about his previous tiet no judge that time

Then I heard an excited whoop fro ston flew into view, carrying an extremely exuberant Jayce on his back

“This is awesome!” the blond man shouted

“This is awesome, awesome, awesome, this is awesome!” the birds shouted back

I shuddered “Ugh That’s fucking me up”

“You get used to it,” Xero assured me “Hey, where’s Kai?” He shouted up at Jayce

“Right here,” Kai replied

I looked around but didn’t see him

“Up there” Xero pointed to the tree behindsoht

Kingston landed a moment later, bucked Jayce off of his back, and shifted into his hurinned

“We found a path through the woods,” he announced “But I’ an eye on the route These guys got lost twice”

“I wasn’t lost,” Kai retorted, his angular features pinching in a highly offended look “I just didn’t knohere Jayce was As far as I’m concerned, that means Jayce was lost”

“I knew exactly where I wasn’t the whole time, thank you very rin “But, yeah, no, we need Kingston up there, or we’ll be lost for actual days”

“You didn’t see any big, bright purple flowers in there, did you?” I asked nervously, shooting a glance toward the thick, ominous forest

Jayce shook his head “Nope But there was this one crazy vine thing that tried to grab ” He held his hands up, indicating a circle bigger than a dinner plate “They’re pretty too Kind of a teal color, I guess?”