House Without Water

The chatter! By the gods, the amount of words the two of them tossed about, you'd have thought... actually, now that I think about it, they might have had a weekly quota of words for a similar cultivation method to my Weekly Exercise Pools. It would certainly explain a lot.

Oh, no risk of that. Their minds were those of children, with no sense of responsibility or consequences for their actions. And they had the lung capacity of dolphins, to speak so much at once.

When one of them stopped to inhale, the other was ready.

From river to homestead was under twelve minutes, but... yes, I think I might have. Had it been twenty minutes, I might well have murdered both Kaela and Romulus, and left their broken bodies by the side of the trail.