“You all have sensitive hearing,” she snapped, feeling her cheeks turn red. “You’d have heard me yelling even if I’d barely made a peep of a sound. And anyway, I only had a bad dream because someone, a dude called Mundo, decided it was the right time to introduce me to Pennywise.”
Mundo chuckled. “Damn, your mother sulked with me for a week over that.”
“So she should have done too,” Annette answered for Jessie, sauntering into the Council room.
The men eyed her, and then eyed Ava when she came in too.
“Is it just me, or are there getting to be lots of X chromosomes in this room?” Major asked.
“I don’t know, Major, you’re the healer. You’d know,” Jessie retorted.
“That tongue of yours is like a knife, girl,” Mundo chastised.
“That’s because I was raised by you, Daddy.”
“She’s got yo
