"I have to wait for Finn," August smiled, pulling back on Sage's hand.
"Then I will wait, too," he said simply and started jumping on the path to make the bones crunch under his feet. He was more like a pup tonight than she had ever seen him, and it made her happy.
"Did you know that your sister had left to go find Livvy?" she asked as she watched him playing. It distracted her from the creeping fear of increased silence that had surrounded them.
He paused his jumping and nodded.
"You did?" she said, surprised. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I couldn't tell you. People would go after her," he explained before jumping some more.
"How did she know where to find her?" August asked, but this time he just shrugged. He didn't seem to want to talk about it.
This added to the mystery of Selah and Sage's background before they came here as strays. But perhaps it wasn't even about that. Maybe Selah had learned something working at the council.
