Lanta was about to put a cookie in her mouth as she assumed that they had all moved on from her.
She put down the cookie and wiped her lips elegantly.
Scarlet saw the look of approval in Cecily and Emory's eyes. Even her mother seemed to be impressed by this small act.
She snorted softly and rolled her eyes.
Next to her, and watching her closely, Esong squeezed her thigh lightly and her leg jerked like she was experiencing a muscle spasm.
She glared at him and warned him to behave with a fire in her eyes. His hand that squeezed her thigh was suspiciously too close to her lady parts.
"I was going to concur with lady Scarlet." Lanta said. "The deities are proud and greedy. They do not share their glory with anyone or anything else.
If you use pendants blessed by the monks and symbolic of faith in them for something else, they might do something else in anger. A God can bless but that same God can punish."
