Chapter 695
He went home in the morning like he said he would, quietly cooking breakfast for everyone and letting the smell do its job of rousing the two women while he began plating up, watching as both came out and wiped the sleep from their eyes.
“Welcome home Sonya, did you just get back?”
“Mmh, yesterday. I only meant to have a seat but guess I was more worn out than I’d thought. Things were a lot worse than I was expecting. And you two? Both safe?”
“As you can see,” Ben shrugged, Getting a deeply exasperated look from Thera for it.
“I’ve been safe. Ben was kidnapped for a month and then after we went out with uncle someone kept trying to kill him.”
“And yet I’m still safe.”
“Um, maybe the two of you could catch me up.”
It was clear plenty had gone on so they filled Sonya in on all that had happened since the start of the second wave, hearing what she’d been up to in return. Even if not as extreme, she’d been dealing with nothing but constant work for over a month, dealing with the constant flow of people and bodies that were still arriving to that day as the world dealt with the horde that had made its way through.
“That may have been the first proper bit of sleep I’ve had that entire time,” She ended with a stretch. “Getting these bracelets dropped my workload enough that I was finally able to come home, the fact that you made them isn’t the most shocking, but I’m still going to have to be going back pretty constantly so I’ll be making good use of your mini-gates. As it stands I’ll probably be back home most nights, I just won’t be around for much of the day otherwise.”