“Well, that’s settled,” I said after I’d finished that task. There wasn’t a clock in the room, and I thought it would be rude to pull out my phone and check the time, but I guessed it must be way after six. We might as well think about getting something to eat. “Are you hungry?”
A lift of his shoulders. “I don’t know. Not really.”
This response didn’t surprise me all that much, but I knew he needed to eat. And, after my exertions of that afternoon, casting all those protection spells, I was starving. “You should have something, though. Who delivers around here?”
I was worried my question might have annoyed him. To my relief, he only looked thoughtful. “A bunch of places, since I’m so close to downtown. But I think I could have some pizza. Is that okay?”
A few days earlier, I’d shared a
