"Not long," she said, reaching up on her tiptoes to kiss him Hello. "You want to go to the lake?" she asked. Normally they set up meeting points ahead of time, but she'd been so anxious to see him that she'd gotten close. She knew he was never relaxed when she was this close to home, though.
She took a slower pace today, walking alongside him rather than running ahead. "So guess where I've been." Her trip to the dragon planet had been entirely last minute. Apparently Thomas had been planning it, then he just showed up and dragged Gaius and her into a box without much explanation. She didn't even have a chance to tell anyone. She was a bit curious whether or not Aedan could smell anything different on her.