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Notes from book 3 of foreigner by c. J. Cherryh inheritor

on August the 17 of this year, I read Inheritor by C. J. Cherryh and now I understand why some people suggest to skip the first 2 for this one, its kind of good. as usual Swearing and spoilers ahead.

Chapter 1

Bren eats eggs with lord Geigi , Tano and Algini by the seaside and manages to explain what the hell happened in the earlier books quite well. Also explains a bunch of shit I missed because I am a periodic fool. Grigiji, the name of the astrologer that saved the world, my bad. Also yes he lost sleep from nightmare scenarios. It sounds like the government punished bren by keeping him from seeing his mother. It seemed like jase was a bist scared and unhappy while on the planet with him. Gaylord Hanks , who the fuck give first names to a kid that?. He gets a message after leaving geigi to go back to the guild approved hotel when he gets a message from Surieji

Chapter 2

Hes looking at the spacecraft being built by the aveti. He give a whole speech about why the spaceship is kind of important and meets back with Geigi. Great they just got news that lord Saigami was assassinated and Geigi might be the suspect, great. Direiso

Chapter 3

So it seemed like I got some flowers from supporters and the workers of the ship of his. 

Lady direiso might be the real target of the assassination on saigami. It also seems like banichi and jago are both busy with something had haven't  talked with him in months. Describing them in the same paragraph as being "in that spot humans kept soft and warm and vulnerable in their hearts". Tano and Algini are just stuck together personally and algini was so quiet algini was thought to be dead. Man'chi is emotional as he had learned. He has finally made it home.

Chaper 4

The house that he was in 2 is back and the seems to be a meeting tabini wants to have with him. Saidin greets him. His mother sounds like a fuck up in a nasty way. Jason or Jase is dressing. The son of the lore dur from the last chapter is still managing to live in his head rent free. After taking a bath he gets a towel from Tano and run into jase. Jase now has a braid and looking miserable. It turns out that jase had a bad day and was worried about where he was . It sounds like that not only was the paidhi was not only picked for adaptability to learning a language but he was also pick due to self control, it hints that not only was deana was not worthy but bren might have been hinted to have enough emotional issues from his child hood with his parents may have helped him, for better or worse, get picked for it.

Chapter 5

Bren and jase are at dinner after cooling down a little bit. Turns out jase accidentally said the staff where all rain clouds when he was trying to say was he probably offended members of the staff. It also sounds like he is getting better but still not faster. Yolanda sounds like she was sent to the island and sounded level headed. Holy hell I adore this chapter that feels like a hurt/comfort and it just shows just what bren can do to try to comfort him. Also he finds out that the people harassing his mother might be using the isolation to get his mom to not like him and jases dad died just 4 days ago. He wants to try to comfort jase but he doesn't know if he should.

Chapter 6

He wonders if he should try to comfort jase and try to get the phone shit show solved. He also asks Tano what happens when the death of a parent happens around the aveti, he describes it as Confirm man'chi like being in a place to go. He tells them that he needs the aveti may need to check if any of the staff have been with holding messages while he checks out if the humans are doing something else as well. He is writing a letter about the situation when banichi is back with Jago. 

Chaper 7

Bren is with Jago while trying to deal with the shit going down. Oh my gosh he has the hots for her. Well they both go talking with banichi and jago on the shit they missed and who could have done it. He goes to bed thinking about how the first book changed him with ilisidi that showed him. 

Chapter 8

He finds out that in the morning that they did not tell jase directly but they told Yolanda for some shitty reason. And the dur son's antics are Kind of annoying. He talks to jase who is unsurprisingly upset about not getting privacy to talk to his mom. Bren probably suspects he's starting to get depression from all the bullshit. 

Chapter 9

It looks like the meeting then he hears tabini getting notes for damiri wanting to bring her uncle to the house. Dean hawks is a shit and brens going to have to deal with jaee during the whole shit. Bren real uses that maybe relocating could be helpful for jase. So it seems like ilisidi is gonna be back and as quote tabini about how she feels about Bren `` oh don't be modest. She dotes on you. You're Civilized.  That's her word.  civilized. And you have, as she says, such lovely hair.". It's kind of funny how tabini hates the uncle so much. It's bluntly said that he needs to keep the uncle and jase separated.

Chapter 10

He goes back to check on the office and secretaries before the meeting and to try to check on jase. He is said he can't  be allowed to be around common aveti. The interview is kind of going okay about the spaceship. Deana is being a shit again and a quote is back "Banichi,my salad my truth". Direiso have had a hand in deana's kidnapping so that others could kill tabini and bren and she was gonna try to get her hands on jase and Yolanda but luckily they succeeded in the last book. Holy shit ilisidi is a badass.

Chaper 11

Bren tries to get banichi to help him get more info on the shit show. He is also understandably pretty cynical about the islands free press. Jago and banichi are with him. It's really awkward having to explain to a group of aliens about a conversation with a mother and her son. Jase is getting so many flowers that even the servants are wondering if they should cast them out. He is able to talk to jase who feels like a prisoner in the house and he would like to go to the ocean. Jase had to get used to not being on a ship and on a planet. Bren tells jase that to see the ocean he is to try to not upset the uncle coming to visit. It seems like talk of the ocean was good enough to motivate him to look forward to something. 

Chapter 12

Bren has to deal with a bunch of files and he is able to join jase for supper. He is surprisingly keeping it together and not relying on using jase as an emotional crush for him self. For some reason they are saying they do not have his mother in the hospital for some reason. He decided to call Sandra, an old flame to him. So it sounds like Sandra had a spider plant named Clarence and a djossi vine  named Louise. He tries to get Sandra to get him more info on what the hell is going on. Jago says The Boy from Dur tried to get to him again. Jago gets him to admit that he should have allowed her to shoot hawks in a way. He is told to sleep by Jago.

Chapter 13.

Bren is talking to jase while they deal with tomato sauce and hoping the uncle doesn't get hit with contraband. Jase is no shit detective nervous as hell. Bren tells him to stick to the children's language,  do what ever the uncle tells him and listen to what he is told. Tabini is revealed to like television, describes it as a world in a box. The television crew for the rebuilt artifact obviously gives jase the jitters, bren tells him to stay with his security like Dureni. Tabini and damiri are with the uncle tatiseigi. Jase makes a bit of a hiccup and surprise ilisidi is back. She comments that jase hair is now grown out and can talk a little bit better. Cendi is also there and its kind of funny how she hates the vase that is near the liles artifact from the second book. Ilisidi goes to where her grandson , the lady of the house and the uncle are. They are at the part and moving around while bren is advising Jase to avoid certain people and try to be calm. Ilisidi stop flirting with bren please. So it turns put that a human is on the phone.

Chapter 14

Oh Toby is pissed, also brens mom had a small heart attack and is going in for surgery. Toby really wants him back on the island. Well that phone call ended badly and jago was merciful enough to try to get a message and damiri suggests that the shit show on the island with Toby might be a trap. Jase kind of panics and tries to protect the uncle when a light bulb exploded. Ilisidi ditching him to try to patch up things for the uncle. Oh my God is he calling out the uncle for being a shit? How the fuck dude the kid from Dur keep finding them? He decided to try to write a card to the kid to try to get him to stop. He finds jase after he fails to get a contact from the spaceship he came from. Bren talks to him and notices that he is to no one surprise stressed as fuck. Baddissuni had gotten ill from the incident earlier. Okay so it sounds like bren is asking ilisidi for help.

Chapter 15

Okay so the wiring is being fucked around with. Poor bren, needing sleeping pills since the ask for help from ilisidi. Hey it sounds bren , jase , banichi , jago , tano and algini are going on a trip. Holy shit brens moms a batch that made him and Toby competitive even though Toby literally ran off to get married so that he would leave the family behind for his own. Like seriously lady no wonder why bren got issues. Wow his dependency issues might have been to his mother and barb might have been affected. Also they take a van to get to tabinis jet. Holy hell bren has more patience for jase then I do and sounds like Yolanda and jase both had to understand how the planes work. It took home a while to admit it but jase and him needed a break from all this shit. It looks like ilisidi 's 'young men' came to Greet them. The drive from the plane to was chaotic enough to make jase uneasy. Bren a bit grumpy they are on a mountain and is told to get out of banichis way. Their back in malguri baby, bad news is that the place looks like shit.

Chapter 16

Holy shit even after a book the place is still being slowly rebuilt. Well shit jase is going through what bren is going on in the first book. Finally jase snaps at him, but luckily cools down and apologizes. Bren tells the truth about why he has been asking him to trust him this way. Jase notices the mecheiti out in the yard of the mansion that they are going to have to probably go to the beach using them. Jase is still tense as hell. Ilisidi is at dinner with them and and is being annoying as ever. The kid from dur got to the mansion some how, like how the fuck is he tracking them.

Chapter 17

Everyone is just quiet while banichi is quote 'questioning' the kid, Luckily the dessert could be a bit of a distraction. Jase awkwardly asks about fishing and bren makes him go back to bed. He gets to ilisidi to apologize who is understanding. Bren is told by cenedi who tells him the dur kid says he has info that could threaten world peace. So the kid says he saw a plane around where he lived that had a female human speaking ragi . The boy is trying to be sneaky in a language kind of way but ilisidi was dangerous. So it sounds like the plane the human was on was going into trains so that she technically was not on land to send messages out. Holy shit she is ripping the boys to shreds and he knows he's breaking the law. First he stole his dad's plane, then he jumped hotel's to try to get to bren then he caught a train to get to the mansion. This kid pissed off ilisidi so much he makes jase look better. He talks with Jago who tries to reassure him. He explains to jase what's going on and manages to get a much needed chat. Great vehicles outside that kind of woke him up, it was just supplies. 

Chapter 18

They go out hunting with jase, jago, bren, ilisidi and cenedi. Jase is a little grossed out by the fish. Bren reveals he brought the gun that was a gift gift from banichi and tabini from the first book. Nokhada is back and he and jase are ready to go. She nearly injures him but he dose stop her with a riding crop. They ride for a bit with everyone and jase has to learn to sway with the beast, not be still. 

Chapter 19

Great ilisidi is being suspicious again. The boy from dur kind of makes a riding hiccup  but manages to be saved. They finally are at the sea of Dur. They make a came with tents made from the human island and plan to rest for the night. Jase is glad you finally be at the sea. The boy from dur rejiri joins in and talks to jase. It's kind of nice that bren, jase and rejiri are getting along. Well now I know ilisidi is in the 'wait your turn to kill deana hawks' line. The reason why the lilies were destroyed where to try to make bren look bad and deana look better in comparison. 

Chapter 20 

Jase asks about what bren was told. He visits the security and jago confess  they brought his gun he hid in the luggage. Banichi probably senses the problem between the two and decides to gaurd jase aka sleep with him to gaurd him, leaving bren with no bed. Wait is this scene of the bren-dose-the-deed-of-darkness-with-jago-in-the-tent scene? They did the thing, they totally did the thing. At least it was not as bad as alot other types or written sex scenes I have heard of. They use the rain outside to bathe, like how do they do that in cold water? WTF?

Chapter 21

Banichi woke Jago up to know about what the heck happened. Jase understandably is wondering why they were separated. Jase is upset about him being around jago. Oh shit ilisidi knows. He talks to jase about what he actually was going on and jase is pissed about being lied to. Jase is able to be okay for a moment. Jase manages to make bren think about how he might be not so different from the humans on that island with the concept of delusion. God I love this chapter. Cenedi ask him to visit ilisidi.

Chapter 22

Oh great ilisidi totally knows about what happened. He gets back to jase who thanks him for being honest. It turns put the situation is a way to distract others who may hurt those bren and himself are with to try to keep there enemy's on there tail. When they start running jase starts laughing for the first time. This was a moment that bren was hoping for him to have to make him feel better. 

Chapter 23

So they got to the destination  and a Stranger approaches them. So ilisidi went here to check out why the mail and communications were fucky. Well shit Toby did apologize for some of the shit he said. Holy shit he needed to calm down and those three jago jase and banichi are there for him. Well fuck Yolanda is trying to get there by herself through a storm on a boat , it also makes sense why he wanted to go to the ocean so bad. Bren understandably now has his moment of now being able to get mad at jase. He Is looking through his computer to fund out they laid off the foreign office to keep him from contacting anyone. Well let's just say I imagine rejiri being like "well well well I bet you feel stupid now for thinking I am useless.

Chapter 24

Now they are looking over maps to figure out where the hell Yolanda is. It turns out that jase didn't have a father , he had been born maybe through frozen sperm from a famous person who died for the people and he does have a mother Weirdly enough he was not a expendable crew member but an elite. thanks to brens kindness jase wants to make up for his lies. It turned out there was some code words that Yolanda was trying to tell him when shit went down. It turned out the ship only came to the planet when something happened to another one there knew. 

Chapter 25

He goes to the meeting and explains what jase told him so that they can hopefully negotiate. They finally get a message to the ship and talk. It turns out that the human government was so shitty that Yolanda tried to leave and they decided to stir shit to distract everything. They get to a town to meet up with lord geigi who was rather late much to ilisidi annoyance.  

Chapter 26 

Thank to geigi getting distracted by veggies he had to do some other shit. I can't get the thing out of my head of this scene of all these cool guys about to go into a fight in these prissy ass boats for like 7 to 8 foot people ( I think that's the size.)  He goes outside with banichi, jago, and jase outside and joke fir a little bit. When they tried to hide in the boat let's just say that somebody did not like boats. Jase bren and jago get stuck together and managed to get jago to safety with the gun. They are saved by the dur ferry.

Chapter 27

Rejiri is back and came to help. And manage to shoot down some of the assholes trying to kill them in boat's,. Holy shit the uncle might have fucking saved them and Toby Actully came by to see him. He brought Shawn,  Yolanda with him as well. Sandra did manage to get in contact that he wanted. And holy shit deana hawks might be dead.

Chapter 28

Lord Geigi got a longer boat and Toby's got his own boat. The idea that a pregnant Jill Toby's wife was spending some time with Shawn's wife throwing Shawn's eldest birthday party with tano and algini dealing with is just so cute. Gaylord Hanks can go fuck himself.  Everyone is okay for now. The government isn't filled with influencal pricks as there where and the family members can visit him when ever they can. 

#ilisidi #bren cameron #jago #banichi #tabini #foreigner series #foreigner series spoilers #rejiri #geigi #tano #algini #mecheita

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Quint Buchholz really just looked into my soul huh

#art #something something child hood wonder and the isolation of being a human being stuck with your own conscious and body something something #joy of childish behavior is just love and wonder as an adult blah blah blah

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Red Hood And The Outlaws: Loyalty (Chapter 12)

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Chapter 12: Who’s the Wolf?

“ So let me sum up. You think that Black Mask has somehow put his hand on a biotechnological virus capable of controlling the mind of anyone infected and that he used it on the mayor so that he would be able to redefine Gotham the way he wants.”     “ It’s a techno-organic virus actually but basically yeah” [Y/N] remained silent for a while, sitting on the desk of Jason’s personal hideout as he was working on his blocking capacities using an old wooden dummy. “You don’t think that’s possible?”         “ Honestly Jay, I believe anything can happen in Gotham. Black Mask always had his filthy hands on everything as far as I remember so it is highly probable that he’s behind this … It’s just … Why does he need Bizarro? … And why does he need you?”         “ I’m wondering the same thing”             “ But do you believe in his ‘I need an heir’ crap?”           “ I don’t know, babe. Every time I think I’ve finally figured the guy out, he is proving he is way ahead of me” He stopped punching, a bit out of breath and took a towel to sponge down the sweat on his face and on his bare chest. “What?” He asked her with a chuckle as she was smiling at him. “Babe?” She repeated with a questioning amused look.           “ I didn’t say that.”         “ Yeah you did”                 “ So even if I did, I often call Artemis princess.”               “ Liar! You would be dead by now if you were doing that.”         “ It’s just a way to …” He marked a pause to look for the right word that could get him out of this awkward situation, a bit too humiliating to his taste.     “ show affection?” She suggested with a mocking smile             “ No … Enhance my male side.” He stuck out his chest in an attempt to make her smile which was an eventual success.         “ Seriously stop it. It’s funny but you’re embarrassing yourself … babe”

She winked and he threw his towel at her with a fake angry look. She threw it back shortly after she caught it, the reek of his sweat being rather displeasing and aggressive to her wolf smell. “I think you’ve enhanced your male side enough for today. You stink.”           “ Look at that fastidious young lady repelled by this wonderful essence of virility” Jason said with an exaggerated distinguished tone.     “ The hormone of virility, which would be the testosterone, doesn’t come from sweat but from gonads in case you didn’t know” He crossed his arms above his bare chest, nodding at her with a weird pout. “Sexual glands” she clarified as she believed he didn’t know what they were “The only thing that can be associated to virility in sweat is the presence of a low percentage of pheromones” Jason was listening to her carefully but there was this sparkle of mischief in his eyes “But you already knew all that, didn’t you?” He laughed. Of course he knew, he had studied the human body from every conceivable angle. After all he had to as Batman’s perfect little soldier.                 “ Is your meta-side able to smell all these things?”     “ Smelling is a capability among so many though it used to drive me nuts at the beginning. It is the wolf’s most developed sense. It permits to identify and locate things or persons and even tell about their mood or health.”                

When he felt like she was ready to tell her more about herself, about her life, her history, Jason went to sit by her side in silence.                 “When I was a “wolf-cub” I used to have no control over all this. I could smell everything: all my surroundings, every people’s emotions. It felt as if my mind was invaded. I didn’t know who I was anymore, I couldn’t tell my feelings apart from all the others I could sense. It was awful.”               “ How did you learn to control it?”         “ I tried to isolate myself from as many people as possible. I thought that I should learn to channel few things first before trying to face a crowd of emotions. But that wasn’t what my mentor thought I should do. One morning, he woke me up, put spitting cobra venom in my eyes to render me temporarily blind and left me in the middle of a giant crowded market place and asked me to come back home. The first day I spent hours sobbing, looking for my way back, terrified. The second I cried. I was lost. The third I fell on my knees and screamed like crazy hoping he would come back to bring me back home. After four days I understood I could only count on myself so I got up and I pulled myself out of this mess. But of course I wasn’t welcomed back with a loving embrace ”                

                 ‘Eth Alth’Eban – Few years ago

                 Even though she could perceive some shades of blue and gold everything around her was still blurry. But she knew she was back. She knew it the moment she felt the humid air getting fresher as she was walking up the mosaic stairs, so cold under her wounded bare feet grazed by the days of walking. She knew it the second she smelled his distinct powerful animalistic odour.         “ Four days” He just said with that disappointment in his voice “It took you four days.” She looked down with tears in her reddened blind eyes. But there weren’t tears of sadness. She had shed enough tears of sadness. Those were tears of anger. “I don’t know what I saw in you. You’re not that exceptional after all. Just another fragile little child from Gotham City who has lost mama and papa.” She tried to remain calm but she could feel her nails piercing her palms as she clenched her fists. “You’re not fit to be one of us and surely you don’t deserve your gift”         A gift? What gift? To her it was more of a curse, a permanent affliction, an incurable disease, something she will carry like a burden for the rest of her life.             “What? Did the trauma render you deaf? Mute?” She didn’t answer. She only gritted her teeth. She sensed him getting closer. His odour was more and more distinguishable as it was slowly invading her nostrils like a thick smoke. But there was something else, another smell, acrid and sour. She had smelled it before. She knew what it was. And she knew where it came from “Whatever. As long as you’re still capable of spreading your legs when I want, you may still have some use to me.”

Her hand slapped his face, scratching his cheek deep in the process. The force of the slap almost sent him flying. He tumbled, astonished, and caught hold of the table to cushion his fall. “You sick bastard. Have you any idea what you put me through? Can’t you even imagine for a second the pain I felt?” “ Am I supposed to feel guilty?” He tried to stand up she kicked him violently in the chest to keep him down on the floor.     “ No because to feel guilty you must have a heart and we both know you don’t have one. You don’t care about anyone but yourself.” Her voice was a real growl, powerful and full of rage. It was coming from her entire body, making it shiver. However, he remained calm and emotionless as if her anger was leaving him indifferent.         “ Affection makes one weak. It only ties your hands and feet. If you hadn’t waited for me you would have come back here on day one. You know I’m right. After all, isn’t the moment you realised I wouldn’t come what finally got you back on your feet and made you think rationally and not like a sad lost puppy?” With a simple yet powerful move she pushed the table away from him and right against a pillar. The impact broke it in pieces, reducing it to mere firewood.     “Of course I was sad and lost. You abandoned me, blind and with nothing to defend myself!” She didn’t want him to get up. She sat on him and grabbed him by his clothes. “Perhaps I should do the same to you”    

She smelled it again, so close from her. She could hear it even, this murky poisonous liquid swaying in his phial, the very same he used on her to deprive her of her eyesight.     Though she could not truly see it, she grabbed it without any difficulty and uncorked it. Those days lost in the crime-infested and filthy market had taught her how to rely on her other senses.             She then approached the liquid from her mentor’s face, ready to pour it down right in his eyes, as he had done to her.         “ Put the phial down, [Y/N]. That’s a good girl.” He was not begging. It sounded as he was trying to control her and she hated it.     “ Why? Do you want me to pity you? Spare you? Sorry but I’m a fast learner. Affection makes one weak. It only ties your hands and feet. And right now I don’t feel anything for you except a devouring hatred”   “You won’t do it.” But she did, without any hesitation. She poured it entirely. He didn’t scream. He wasn’t that kind of man. Instead he just gritted his teeth to muffle the pain. And she enjoyed it, so much she let herself smile of satisfaction. But the satisfaction was brief as he suddenly started laughing.                 “ Finally. I knew you had it still in you, that awful beast, that monster lying in you” No he couldn’t appreciate this. He couldn’t be proud of this. She was hurting him. He was supposed to feel only pain. “Shut up!!!” She yelled as she threw him through the room only to rush towards him again. She pounced on him and started hit him hard again and again, screaming and shouting at him like a wild animal, until another smell, this time rather metallic and salted, came to her nose. He was bleeding and she had his blood on her hands. But she didn’t stopped. She continued. And he tried to defend himself but the rage was making her too strong               “ Okay, [Y/N]. That’s enough. Calm down now.” He managed to say between two punches and he actually begged this time for that he knew what she was capable of when her eyes were starting to glow yellow.                               “ Calm down? No I won’t calm down. You brought this upon yourself. If you want to blame someone for it, blame yourself.”               “ Stop it. You know what anger does to you.” Flashes of a terrible night came back to her. So much blood. Those screams. Those growls.   “ Yes, I do. But I don’t care. Because right now all I want to do is kill you.”       “ If you do it, we both know you’ll regret it.” Those voices … The poor girl is orphan now… I think trauma turned her mad… Perhaps we should send her to Arkham. Arkham. Arkham. Arkham. That word was echoing in her head. “Don’t let your anger control you. You control the demon inside of you not the other way around.”                   And she released him. Slowly. And she started crying as she cried that night, the night when it all began, the night when it all changed.     “That’s it” He whispered to her ear, caressing her messy white hair.                

“ So it wasn’t without any surprise that the next step of my training was to work on my anger issues.” She said to conclude her story though she had omitted to talk about her weird flashbacks and the voices in her head.                   Jason remained quiet even after that, with pity and sadness in his eyes. Who would have thought that a girl as young as her could have been through such a terrible ordeal. And how could a man torture a fifteen years old girl? Or abuse her like that? He was no mentor. He was a tyrant as well as a paedophile. The thought of his filthy hands on her body sickened him and made him want to find the bastard and fill his body with bullets.                 “ Why didn’t you kill him?” He asked as his eyes were suddenly darkened by anger   “ Because, as crazy as it sounds, I have respect for the man. He was harsh but he pulled me out of the gutter when I needed help and he made me tougher. He taught me how to fight and to survive.”

The outlaw cooled down as he remembered the night he met Batman when he was just a street rat named Jason Todd, how he moved from Ma Gunn’s school for wayward boys to Wayne Manor, how he swapped an old red sweater for a green, red and yellow uniform, how he went from being a wheels thief to the sidekick of the world greatest detective, a man he respected and dared considered like a father even though his life with him wasn’t always easy. Strange how his story wasn’t so different from hers. “ It’s surprising how much we are alike you and I.” He confessed as he stared at her right in her greyish green eyes.               “ I told you, Jason. We have more than one thing in common.” Without looking away from her, Jason slowly cupped her soft cheek. She let go under his caress, enjoying his tenderness as she closed briefly her eyes.             He slightly smiled at her sudden docility and welcomed her in his arms before planting a kiss in her silky hair with a delicacy that agreeably surprised her. But she couldn’t allow herself to feel that good nor could she let herself grow fond of him. She had a mission. A mission she could not fail if she aimed to survive.

“You still smell, you know?” She said to voluntarily ruin the moment even though she didn’t want it to. By chance it only made him laugh. “I’m going to take a shower then” He slowly let go of her before kissing her again, this time close to the corner of her lips. She stood still for a brief moment, a bit confused by his gesture. He noticed it but he decided to use this moment to go. “You know, [Y/N].” He stopped on his way to the bathroom “You mentor was wrong. You are exceptional.” He declared with another sweet and sincere smile.     Damn you, Jason Todd. Why do you have to make things so difficult? She thought as she dreamily touched the bit of skin next to her mouth where he had kissed her.

#red hood and the outlaws: loyalty