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“No”
“But you care about him?”
“Of course You don’t care about the women you take to bed?”
He shook his head “Not really”
“Damn, that’s cold”
“Most of them are whores”
“Wow…you’re a dick”
He gave an irritated sigh “I mean that literally”
“Oh…”
We fell into a long bout of silence, round of the cave My stoe containers in the cave Since ere stuck there, I decided to helpa container of assorted dried fruit andwith so the satisfaction of food in my stomach almost instantly “How do you want me to help you?”
He ignored me
“I thought ere past this—”
He pressed his forefinger to his lips, signaling me to shut my mouth
My eyes shifted to the crevasse, but I didn’t see anything
Was there actually so there, or did he just want me to shut up? I reached my hand inside, shoved the food into round It was enough to ave me was vicious
Then I heard it—the heavy breaths
Heavy breaths that weren’t co from either one of us
My eyes looked through the crack, and then I saw it, the movement
White furlike snow except that it was in motion It took seconds for it to leave the crevasse—and that hen I kne big it was
Massive
Hours had passed since the yeti e a single word of conversation in that ti dark
Once the sun was gone, the shivers set in “Are we going to stay here all night?”
“It’d be stupid to head back in the dark”
“Won’t your brother worry? Will he come search for you?”
“The only reason I wouldn’t return is because I’m dead, so there’s no point” His eyes re for us to ht, to make sure he’s moved on”
“This place…is a wasteland” My life on top of the cliffs was different, and not just because I lived in the castle as one of the royals There were no dom, no Teeth, Runes, or yetis
He regarded me with the coldest look I’d ever seen
“I don’t mean that offensively…”
“It is a wasteland—and it’s home to a lot of unfortunate people” He returned the stool to the wall and grabbed a bedroll from the crate He rolled it out and tossed a pillohere his head would go
With chattering teeth, I grabbed my own and rolled it out beside him