“I know,” Julen said. “Back home, I’d be taking Advanced Poisons class right now, and then spending two hours practicing my knife work, and then reading classics. But now, I have no idea what’s going to happen next. It’s amazingly liberating.”
Glory looked at Zaltys and shook her head. “Humans,” she said. “They’re impossible.”
“Yes,” Zaltys agreed. “But what can we do? He’s family.” They set off into the green vastness of the jungle.
As they passed under the low-hanging branches, a pale green serpent slithered behind them in Zaltys’s shadow.
She pretended not to notice.