winfry felt like the only way to melt the ice between isa and himself would be to prostrate himself in front of isa crying a million apologies while bemoaning his horrid personality, but he knew such pusillanimity wouldn’t help anyone. So after going over it in his mind for thirty minutes, winfry walked to the corner of the concrete cell and tapped isa on the shoulder. She didn’t look up. winfry expected this.
“isa, I’d like to say thank you. Thank you so much for everything you did for me in the woods. I would have been dead many times over without you. I owe you at least seven lives and the only repayment I’ve given you is a headache. I am so sorry for how selfishly I have been acting and most importantly, I’m sorry for hurting you and letting you down. I will do everything in my power to prevent this from happening again.” winfry delivered his whole apology to the auburn back of isa’s head, which was what winfry continued to stare at for a stretched out 2 minutes afterwards.
“Thank you winfry,” isa began without moving, “but I need to be mad at you for a bit longer still.” winfry's slouch sunk three centimeters as he turned away.
…
winfry felt fingers run across the top of his shoulders as isa sat down beside him and he knew how much of a three-month couple they were .
“Yes?” Lithuania had entered their cell and sat down on the bench, lips pursed.
“As you probably already know, we weren’t completely honest with you before. We weren’t sure how much you would believe or how much we could trust you. But since you seem to also have had some contact with the mysterious black figure and we don’t have too much choice about trusting you, we have decided to let you know the truth.”
“We were able to survive the woods because isa, believe it or not, can do magic. She can do all sorts of things like slow time and bend the elements. We also think the book I have is magical but of a more frivolous sort. It mostly just spits out annoying comments. So far we haven’t found anything useful in the book.”
“And the reason we came to LusciousLocks is because I had visions of us meeting someone, you in fact, in a dark woods, which we assumed to be LusciousLocks. That’s the truth, the confounded and crazy truth, but the truth nonetheless. We offer our assistance with any of your operations but we understand we are your prisoners and await your verdict.”
When the duet finished, Lithuania was starring through the concrete floor with her eyebrows furrowed to help her frontal lobe process this surprising information. Finally, she looked up, twitched her lips and …
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