Epilogue
Vesper - Six Months Later
Vesper laced her fingers with Kirael’s, swinging their hands between them as they walked. He nodded at a bunch of ducks flying overhead, a common enough sight in City Park.
“I don’t get your thing with birds,” she said.
He just winked and shrugged, unworried as they continued their stroll, cutting across one big corner of the park.
“I like this walk,” he said. “It’s nice to get off the Canal Streetcar, then see a little of the park, and then there’s Vargus’s house.”
“Yep. It’s pretty amazing,” Vesper agreed, although they both knew she wasn’t talking about the location.
They made it to Vargus’s a few minutes later. A familiar figure sat on the front stoop of Vargus’s little shotgun, head down, intent on…
“Are you shelling peas?” Vesper called as t
