Chapter 10Namir was surprisingly calm considering he had a stranger in his house. They ate in mostly silence. Jinx asked a few more questions about the community, but Namir wasn’t the person to turn to. He was hardly part of the community, and all his knowledge was secondhand. He was surprised about how much he knew about things when Jinx asked, which proved he had been paying attention when Gertrude, Chaton, or Rue had been talking, but while he could mention names, he couldn’t have pointed the person out in a line-up.
Mara used the kitchen floor as a bathroom again, and Namir sighed.
“You should build her a house in the garden.”
“Gertrude said she’d ask Jasper to order some material.”
Jinx looked amused. “Yeah? And he will?”
Namir shrugged. “I think so. Chaton and Rue will help me b
