[Today, Wilhelm plots his delivery route so that he finishes in Nott at the time he agreed to meet River. As he pedals toward the school, clouds blot out the afternoon sun, casting an ominous mood over their undertaking. Even so, he's grinning when he hops off the bike in front of her.]
Hey River.
[He was grateful that she asked him to join her on this quest. Up until now, he's always teamed up with Kell. They'd quenched fires in the fields surrounding Nott and enchanted crops to help the farmers get back on their feet after the devastation. They'd fended off feral hogs while transporting bodies through the twilight woods of Nocwich and captured wild horses in the grasslands of western Thorne. He was wondering whose group he should try to wedge himself into when River appeared in that uncanny way of hers, as if she already knew what he was looking for.]
I don't know if I'm ready, but...let's do this.
[He doesn't know if he believes in ghosts either. He's encountered what might have been his brother's ghost twice before, but one of those times he was losing his mind.]
Where should we start? We could talk to some of the kids.
[School must have just let out, because children are pouring into the schoolyard.]
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Hey River.
[He was grateful that she asked him to join her on this quest. Up until now, he's always teamed up with Kell. They'd quenched fires in the fields surrounding Nott and enchanted crops to help the farmers get back on their feet after the devastation. They'd fended off feral hogs while transporting bodies through the twilight woods of Nocwich and captured wild horses in the grasslands of western Thorne. He was wondering whose group he should try to wedge himself into when River appeared in that uncanny way of hers, as if she already knew what he was looking for.]
I don't know if I'm ready, but...let's do this.
[He doesn't know if he believes in ghosts either. He's encountered what might have been his brother's ghost twice before, but one of those times he was losing his mind.]
Where should we start? We could talk to some of the kids.
[School must have just let out, because children are pouring into the schoolyard.]