Chapter 77 - Blood ties
“You’re back!”
“Bro!!!”
A group of children came bolting towards Scarlett and the others, jumping at Fynn like a gaggle of monkeys. Scarlett watched as he tried to hold them back, placing the unconscious Shin down at the hallway’s entrance.
They’d just arrived at Fynn’s old home in the village of Dimfrost.
“Calm down, we’ve got guests,” the young man in question said, picking up a boy—who couldn’t have been over eight—around the neck. The boy waved his arms around fruitlessly in the air, pouting as he was placed down on the floorboards a short distance away.
“Who are they?” A girl now hanging around Fynn’s elbow stared at Scarlett and the others waiting by the entrance. The girl sniffed the air, then grimaced. “They’re dirty.”
Scarlett’s eye twitched, but she held herself back from saying anything. She was just a kid. Ten at most. Besides, they’d literally just climbed up and down a mountain. Some sweat was to be expected. Though she personally thought she’d sweated relatively little with how cold it had been.
“They’re my companions,” Fynn said, then gestured towards Scarlett. “And she’s my employer. You can’t say that she smells. It’s rude.”
The girl gave him a confused look. “What? Why?”
Fynn’s forehead knitted together, as if he actually had to think about it.
Inwardly bemoaning her choice of companions, Scarlett decided to save him the trouble.
“Will you introduce us to your siblings?” she asked, taking a step forward.