Chapter 295: A Few Questions
Despite the narrow margin of time and threats to her personal well-being, the wives Gale were able to return with Amarena relatively quickly and painlessly once they got moving.
A part of her felt guilty about revealing as much as she knew about Kir’s relationships, and she begged silent forgiveness from her distant lover... friend? She hadn’t felt all that sure for a while and talking with his moms had made her feel even less so.
She certainly didn’t care about their disapproval or not. Not one bit... But they didn’t seem to disapprove of her, even though Brigit started calling her an "Angry Pepper" and Darlae started telling stories about other fighters who’d used twin swords, after Amarena confessed her preferred fighting style...
In other words, they seemed supportive of her... but then again Amarena hadn’t exactly been sparing with her opinions of the she-fox and strangeling succubus, though she did respect the dead.
The biggest delay on their return trip was Amarena’s insistence that she walk into the city, victorious. Some of her deeper cuts reopened, but she managed to make it through the gate without support, thanks mostly to reinforcing her body with magic. The first healer’s house they encountered on the main road was unwilling to take her, but at the second she insisted that the two of them go to meet Halie and receive their reward.
She was surprised when, upon waking, the first thing she saw Brigit and Darlae chatting in chairs across from her bed.
"Did you get your answers?" Amarena grunted as she sat up.
"She pulled the rug out of us before we even got to ask," Darlae grunted.
"I don’t know what that means," Amarena confessed.
"It’s something Kir used to say," Brigit explained. "In this case it means Halie screwed us."
"Ah. I know what that means," Amarena said. "How?"