7
My belly is warm from the food and drink. I didn't think I'd eaten this well in...ever. At least, not as long as I could remember. I made sure to sneak some crumbs of bread and pieces of fruit into Flitter too. I wasn't sure if that was what he'd eat, or even if he needed to, but it was better to give him something rather than nothing. I'd let him out once the two of us were alone again.
"Ah, I see you've eaten," Beetle said as he walked into the kitchen. "And cleaned up. I was right about your face. Beautiful."
"Thank you." I meant every word of that. No matter what happened next, he'd saved me from a hungry day ahead. And a cold night. Darkness was only an hour or so away. The temperature would plummet, and if I didn't have somewhere sheltered to stay like the ruins I'd been living
