The Ice King and The Vixen
He pulled out the chair Jannis had been sitting in and sat down in it, which felt slightly surreal.
"What happened?" he asked.
"I pulled a quote from 2021," I muttered. "I didn't think about the timing. I should have thought about the timing."
Antonio was quiet for a moment. "Which quote?"
I read it to him.
He closed his eyes briefly. "Ah."
"Yeah."
He opened his eyes again, and looked at me with the look of a man about to repeat something he'd said too many times already.
"There are questions you shouldn't ask yet, Laura Jean. Not because the answers don't exist, but because the person who has to give them isn't ready to give them to you."