How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
Not because we’d go out in a blaze of glory, but because when we made that final, insane, suicidal push for victory, I might just hang back a bit and let them all go on ahead.
Nyx stood, gazing up at the elf. “No.” He shook his head. He hadn’t been the same since he’d been possessed. He was shaken and twitchy, unable to focus on what people were saying. “No, no.” He began walking towards his giant mother.
Claire and Flossie moved to stop him, but I called them back. “Let him go. He’ll be safer here.”
They were reluctant to listen to me (no change there), but it wasn’t like we were headed anywhere better. Nyx Hura’nyx, seventh son of the seventh litter, was taking a break from the adventuring