ELRETH
While he gaped at her, she filled him in on all of it—the fight with their father, the conversation with him afterward, how he'd planned the whole thing just to bait her. How angry Aaryn was.
Everything.
Right up to her choosing Cohorts and Aaryn denying her.
"What the—holy shit! Are you serious?" Gar rasped. Elreth nodded, her head still on his shoulder. "Why the fuck would he do that?"
She took a deep breath and he caught the hitch in it and turned to look her in the eyes, his softer than usual. It reminded her of the way he used to be, the way he used to look before he got so angry. "What is it?" he asked her quietly. "What's going on with the Silver Fox?"
It was Gar's nickname for Aaryn—based on a Silent One, an animal, in the human world. She didn't really understand, but Aaryn seemed to think it was funny.
