Inheritance
Author: Sky Ink
last update2026-08-24 23:50:17

He nodded once. "James?" he asked.

"No idea," She said it plainly. No particular feeling in either direction about it.

Kael didn't push that thread.

She fell into step beside him without being asked, which was exactly what he expected her to do. They walked in silence for a moment, just getting used to the fact of each other being there.

"You didn't run into anyone?" Kael asked after a while.

"One person," Lina said, staring straight ahead. "They took one look at me and decided they had somewhe
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  • East Study

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

  • Progress

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

  • Streak

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

  • Streach

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

  • Don't Let Him

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

  • Sir

    Kael found his father in the east study. Keith was still working through the household records when Kael pushed the door open, the same stack of papers spread across the table that had been there that morning, only thinner now. He looked up when Kael entered, his expression shifting into something more attentive. "Sit," Keith told him. Kael sat. He didn't spend long building up to it. There wasn't a clean way to frame it, so he didn't try. He simply told Keith what he had seen that morning. The alcove. The empty kitchen. The narrow side door that no one else used during active hours. The woman who had come through it and crossed to his tray without hesitating, who had lifted the cover and added something and replaced it in under fifteen seconds, her eyes checking the doorways first the way a person did when they had learned through repetition exactly how much time they had. Keith listened without interrupting once. When Kael finished, the room was quiet. "You've been w

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