Lyria and Aertis exchanged a look as the door shut behind Aidria.
“No,” Lyria said. “Definitely not,” she added, as if reading Aertis’s mind.
“Why not?” Aertis asked. “She’s right, you’ve always been the best storyteller in the pack. Remember that time in primary when you got in trouble for making up an entire story about why you didn’t memorize the passages from Voices of the Goddess? All about how you actually did start to memorize them, but you were studying by the fountain in town center and then the book fell into the fountain?”
Lyria laughed, “and how I ran over to the bookstore, but then I found out that old Mr. Tellhan had closed for the day because of a printing emergency?”
Aertis threw a pillow at her, saying, “you had all of us going, even Instructor Seriac, until she went
