Duke drew that too.
Just the hands, reaching.
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Food arrived. Bekah's version of a celebration, which was the same food as always but more of it and brought without waiting to be asked.
The conversation that developed over it was the kind Duke liked best — not important, not planned, just the drift of people who'd come through something together and were settling back into each other's ordinary company. Ziko told a longer and more embellished version of his own role in the proceedings. Silo corrected specific inaccuracies. Ziko incorporated the corrections as additional embellishments. Mitch ate without looking at his phone, which was the most dramatic thing that had happened all day.
Neva was talking to Bena about something low and serious at one end of the table.
Ryke was watchin
