章 97: Chapter 97: The Benefits Of Understanding

I didn't let Destiny have her little celebration for long, instead accepting and absorbing Chaos's continuing irritation at her smugness as my own. From the rolling of Karma's eyes and the way Mafdel snorted, I wasn't the only one who thought the tiny foreteller needed a lesson in humility.

"Adam," I said. "What's wrong with him?" Destiny hesitated while Karma threw her hands up to smack back into her lap.

"Seriously?" She stared at the small foreteller with intent. "You're going to keep this up, aren't you?"

"It's worked out so far." The girl pouted, arms crossed over her narrow chest, heels thudding into the edge of the couch loudly enough to be jarring.

"Might I suggest," Seth said in his smooth and professional way, "a moment of pondering on the benefits of understanding and how much easier things might go if information were forthcoming?"

She wrinkled her nose at him, lips pursed into a bow. "Stop that," she said. "You're not going to make me, Seth."