Chapter 36: Game On, Wish Me Luck

[ARYA]

When they came from her house, Natalya stopped Arya. She needed to know what the young girl was thinking when she had just left her parents in the house without so much as a valid explanation.

"What was that about? I know I'm not in a position to scold you, but your parents fucking crossed whatever realms there are to come to see you, and you're just going to abandon them like that?" Natalya asked, and Arya couldn't help but pause for a moment.

Natalya had a point, though. It had been cruel and rude, but she had already done it. There was no time for tregrest.

"Let's go. I have always been the bad fruit, and today won't change a thing. I get that they came to look for me, but they have confirmed I am alive, so their work here is done. I'm twenty-four years old, Natalya, and nothing can be worse than this," Arya said.