“You don’t have to be scared. We wouldn’t let anything happen to you. We aren’t backing out, and you aren’t leaving,” Sylred says, making me melt more than the chocolate in my mouth. I take a deep breath. “Okay.” They all say it back to me. “Aww. It’s like in the carriage,” I say, grinning. “‘Okay’ is totally our thing now.” Evert shakes his head. “It’s not a thing.” “It’s totally a thing.”
