“Are you okay, Bruno?”
She nodded weakly, “Yeah, I guess.”
“What were your and his plans? Were you going back home? Staying at some other place?”
“I told my mom that we were staying here. Since her mom, was working a night shift now, we had planned on staying out late.”
Mrs Beth having a night job was news to the Count, and he sighed.
“Alright, you stay with me and Lor tonight. You were a stranger back there and now we need to consider and say we have an extra room. I know Neri is staying over at Jonathan’s house tonight, do you want us to call her and have her come stay with us?”
She looked hopeful and said, “Yes, please. Can you do that?”
He just nodded, “Yeah. So what happened?”
They were sitting outside drinking some, well, ale I guess, and she started to slur her words. I thou
