remember when...

Modesty had lost track of the time, and honestly, she had only been darkening her brother's door again to drop off some of the sage and verbena she had gathered while assisting Sakana with his surveying of the beach as a thanks for putting her up. She had moved herself over to the old Ashen palace, a series of caves on Inu Island. She wasn't sure Gilgamesh even knew they were there, so that he had bothered to show up here, when she just so happened to be here, was inconvenient to say the least. She didn't want to talk, but she also couldn't ask Pont to put out her fires for her. “I don't want to hear about how great your girlfriend is Gilgamesh. Go away.” She sat with her back pressed against the shrine door. She couldn't bring herself to look at him in case all her resolve crumbled away.

“Speech.”