#rivervale_lodge

"Do you think I'm crazy, thinking that there might be potential trouble? If you don't want to go, that's fine..."

An inaudible snort. "Trouble is more interesting than sitting at home waiting for corpses to cure."

A hint of a lie there, he DOES enjoy watching the various stages of preservation and decay, but he seems intent on going along.

'Also true."

"Maybe I'm hoping for something more than returning a lost dog and my imagination ran away."

"Well, we are Wilders. If there's no adventure, we'll rustle some up along the way. This fellow in Windsor with the one-way trods is interesting. Remind me to ask Olgar about that when he comes back."

"But no mentioning my hunch."

"I heard nothing." A shrug.

"Okay."

A covert thumbs up.

And then, just because he can, he twists the thumb gruesomely over backwards...

"Aaauurgh!" She grimaces appropriately.

"Gross, Sy."