Four – 05

“Hey,” Gray said, his voice gentle. “Aoife, you don’t have to cry. Are you okay?”

“Yes,” she grated, then sighed. “No. It’s complicated.”

“Family tends to be,” Gray agreed, sliding his arm around her shoulders again. She leaned into his embrace, his nearness and warmth a comfort she needed more badly than she cared to admit. “You want to see him badly enough that we’re walking to Michigan, though.”

“We decided we were going to steal a boat.”

“Not stealing if they’re dead,” Gray said, a trace of grim humor in his voice. “But you’re right. We’re going to try to sail there as much as we’re able. Question of routes, though—do we try for rivers, or do we just sail the lakes and hope we can get through where there might be ice?”

“We can hope to get lucky and that the ice will melt,” Aoife said.

“That’s a good hope,” he said, squeezing her a little closer. “Assuming that the northern Great Lakes aren’t solid sheets of ice right now.”

“It wasn’t that cold, was it?”

“Maybe not here, but who knows about up there.” Gray shrugged. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get there, I guess.”

And hope we don’t end up somehow trapped or farther away from where we need to be than we were when we started walking. Aoife sighed. “I hate logistics.”

“We’ll figure it out,” Gray soothed, then smiled. “Come on now. You were talking to me about a pile of miscreants.”

“Miscreants,” she echoed, then smiled. “I guess we were in some ways, weren’t we? Always in trouble, doing what we wanted because we wanted to—and to hell with what my uncle actually wanted. It wasn’t such a bad life, I guess, while the peace held. It was nice, really, even if Neve and I always had to be the good ones. We were most of the time.”

“Most of the time?” Gray asked with a grin.

Aoife laughed, nodding. “Yes. Most of the time. A girl’s got to have some fun, right?”

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One Response to Four – 05

  1. Long trip they are starting. She is just looking for answers. I can understand that.

    Thanks for the latest additions. Winter is beating me up. I need some sun and sand! 🙂

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