The Things That Are Deadly

At first he thought she had gone back to the other island, but he heard the crunch of sand as she moved towards him. Viper’s first words reached his ears and the giant stopped, looking at her over his shoulder. Weened? What in the hell was she talking about? Her frustration bubbled up and she yelled at him, telling him that she couldn’t talk. Well, she was talking. It was funny. He liked her because she didn’t talk, but he didn’t know that she couldn’t talk. He simply thought that she was a quiet woman.

Chi turned so that he was looking at her just in case she was going to say more. In time, she did, but it wasn’t what he expected to hear. She wanted to live with him? The black and white man tilted his head, the corner of his nose wrinkling again. Bloody hell, she was confusing. She knew that he and Siren shared a den. It wasn’t big enough for four of them. He could make it bigger, but they wouldn’t have any privacy. Chi wasn’t sure if he could sleep next to Viper and not want to fuck every now and again.

So Viper wanted to live with him, but she had attacked Dalila. “Why did you attack Dalila?” He asked outright. Was she trying to get the slave girl out of the den so that she could move in instead? None of it made sense to Chimera.

Since he was done leaving for now, Chi seated himself in the sand. If she was going to continue to try to work this out, then he would give her his time. “Isn’t living right across the bridge good enough? I don’t know that Siren would want another living with us.” At least he was being honest about it. In fact, he wasn’t even sure if Siren and Viper knew one another.