[ the pat on her ankle does reassure her, and her lips turn into a smile, as she continues to watch him. the thought of finding her parents again is almost paralyzing. she wants, so badly, to hug her father and mother again, but there's a little voice in the back of her head warning against it. what if they don't want her anymore? or disapprove?
all of that is irrelevant until she finds them again. the only certainty she has at the moment is what kaz says: someone, somewhere, will know something. and where she is studying is in os kervo, where she last saw her parents. where she was taken out of her bedroom window and, presumably, never seen again.
part of the recovery process, now that she is free of heleen, has been doing a lot of paperwork. kaz has helped with a lot of it, just arranging citizenship, her paperwork, passports . . . and letting the ravkan government know that she's alive. to date, inej hasn't heard anything from her parents, but she at least has a starting point. hopefully the home that her parents had in os kervo is still there. ]
I know.
[ she'll find a way. but at that, her phone buzzes, and inej shifts to glance at it -- their food is here. and she sighs before shifting her legs off his lap, getting to his feet with only the slightest wobble, but she dips down to hug kaz loosely around the shoulders before she moves to the front door. she says nothing about why, or what sparks the gesture, but she wouldn't be going to ravka at all, without him.
but as she walks toward the door to get the noodles, she says: ]
I am going to require a nightly video update from you while I am gone, you know.
[ just in case he thought he would truly be rid of her for a few months. ]
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all of that is irrelevant until she finds them again. the only certainty she has at the moment is what kaz says: someone, somewhere, will know something. and where she is studying is in os kervo, where she last saw her parents. where she was taken out of her bedroom window and, presumably, never seen again.
part of the recovery process, now that she is free of heleen, has been doing a lot of paperwork. kaz has helped with a lot of it, just arranging citizenship, her paperwork, passports . . . and letting the ravkan government know that she's alive. to date, inej hasn't heard anything from her parents, but she at least has a starting point. hopefully the home that her parents had in os kervo is still there. ]
I know.
[ she'll find a way. but at that, her phone buzzes, and inej shifts to glance at it -- their food is here. and she sighs before shifting her legs off his lap, getting to his feet with only the slightest wobble, but she dips down to hug kaz loosely around the shoulders before she moves to the front door. she says nothing about why, or what sparks the gesture, but she wouldn't be going to ravka at all, without him.
but as she walks toward the door to get the noodles, she says: ]
I am going to require a nightly video update from you while I am gone, you know.
[ just in case he thought he would truly be rid of her for a few months. ]