The Meal Before Everything
I met his gaze and said, "Mr. Loris, you didn't force anyone, so you're not in the wrong. It's just that I don't agree with your method of finding a partner."
He gave me a look that was part understanding, part confusion, but he did not press any further.
Fiona and Matthew's trip to the Gangara River was meant to be a spiritual cleanse, but it ended with them catching a deadly virus. They could not make it past three months in the hospital.
Janet was young, though, and even after a rough two months of being sick, she bounced back.
However, she was on her own in Indoria, clueless about how to make it by herself.