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asked, pouting mockingly at her.
    “How many other Carae would suggest I start giving sexual favours for medicine?”
    Taye rocked his head from side to side and the gaze of his hazel eyes travelled a very obvious trail down her body.
    “I’d go with, I dunno, all of them?” he suggested. “Though, admittedly, most of them would probably just think it, not say it out loud.”
    “Well, how kind of them to keep their filthy thoughts to themselves, unlike someone I know.”
    Georgianna tried to give him a disappointed glare, but failed when a smirk curved her lips. Reaching out, she slid a hand over Taye’s shoulder and pulled herself up to give him a tight hug.
    “How’ve you been doing?” she asked against his shoulder, holding the embrace a moment longer before she let him go and Taye’s arms slid away from her waist.
    Taye shrugged his lithe shoulders and stuffed his hands into his pockets.
    “You been this week?” he asked.
    She knew she couldn’t lie to him, not when he was always so kind to her, but Taye’s hope, she knew, would slowly destroy him. Finally, she nodded.
    “Just come from there.”
    Taye’s eyes lit up through the darkness, and he reached out, grabbing Georgianna’s shoulders and bending his head down to get a good look at her.
    “How is she? Did you see her?”
    “She’s…” Georgianna paused, taking a deep breath as she looked back at Taye’s hopeful face. “She’s there. I didn’t speak to her, but she looked the same as before.”
    Taye let out a relieved sigh and brought his hands up, cupping her face, fingers lost in the waves of her hair.
    “You are my ship, Gianna!” he told her gently. “I swear, I don’t think I’d be able to stay back if you couldn’t tell me how she’s doing.”
    Georgianna brought her hand up, resting her fingers over Taye’s hand, curled around her jaw.
    “Taye…” she murmured. “Nyah was buryd. You can’t keep obsessing.”
    He shook his head violently and pulled his hands back from her face.
    “No, she wasn’t. She made a mistake! She’ll be let out, and then things will be the way they were meant to. We’ll be joined, I promised her!”
    It was stupid to argue with Taye, Georgianna knew that. She’d tried telling him that he should move on, that the likelihood was that Nyah would be sold before she was released, a beautiful girl like she was, but Taye wouldn’t hear of it. Any time the compound was brought up, he would get angry and start suggesting they find a way to get her out. Georgianna didn’t want Taye to end his life on an impossible task. Sometimes she feared that he would commit some horrible crime just so that he could be buryd with her.
    “Alright, Taye, okay! I believe you,” Georgianna placated. “Let’s, uh… You got time to take me down?”
    Taye was still distracted, but he nodded just the same and waved her onward.
    They walked in silence until they reached the Junkyard, passing by the tents and other motley shelters the Carae used for their homes within the tunnels. Taye called to one of the tents and a bleary-faced woman tugged the opening back, a blanket clutched to her chest.
    “Got a sale. Will you take over guard until I get back?”
    She didn’t look happy about it, but she nodded and disappeared back into the tent to get dressed.
    “What do you need?” Taye asked once they stood outside the fenced Junkyard entrance.
    “Dressings, bandages, stitching thread, and a couple of needles, whatever you’ve got really.”
    “Wait here, I’ll be right back,” he murmured, unlocking the chains holding the fence closed and disappearing in amongst the stacks of supplies.
    Georgianna knew from experience, when Taye had taken her into the stacks once before, that there was no rhyme nor reason as to how the supplies were stacked. Things were grouped together, so hopefully all the medical supplies would be in one place, but there was no method on how to find a particular stack. Georgianna suggested that