Despite Aurelia's failure to finish her thought, Theo nodded as if he knew exactly what she meant. "I wasn't having a great time at home either. Ending up in Caido -- it was confusing at first, of course, but in the end? A blessing."
He sounded perfectly sincere; it helped that the idea was sort of truth-adjacent. Theo might not be an actual Outlander, but moving from Halo to the Hollowed Grounds and then Torchline had been a blessing. It had probably saved his life -- people in Halo had started getting really tired of his antics. And in Halo, confined by the cold, there wasn't much room to run or hide.
"Oh, you know ..." He shrugged. "I was always at loose ends at home, doing odd jobs and such."
He sounded perfectly sincere; it helped that the idea was sort of truth-adjacent. Theo might not be an actual Outlander, but moving from Halo to the Hollowed Grounds and then Torchline had been a blessing. It had probably saved his life -- people in Halo had started getting really tired of his antics. And in Halo, confined by the cold, there wasn't much room to run or hide.
"Oh, you know ..." He shrugged. "I was always at loose ends at home, doing odd jobs and such."
Theo
"Poker" by ND Strupler is licensed with CC BY 2.0.
