The light evening breeze brings with it a sense of peace I"m not really feeling. I run my hand over my face, not giving a single thought to how disruptive that could be to my makeup. Hopefully, it"ll be fixable.
Footsteps sound and my whole body goes on alert.
"I"m sorry, I"ll leave," I say, assuming it"s a guard coming to tell me I shouldn"t be here.
"That would be rude considering I only just got here," Nik says, coming to sit down beside me.
Matia scampers over to me and pushes her head between my hands, as if she can sense I"m a little upset. I fuss her face, the gesture coming from habit as much as anything else.
"How did you find me?" I ask, stroking my jackal and gaining a lot of peace from her presence.
"When you didn"t come back after twenty minutes, I asked one of the guard
