Laylee tugged on her boots, harder than she needed to. Darkness. That’s what you are. The most unimaginative boots in the world. Bottomless. Pits. Of darkness,House of Mirrors: Chapter 17,Laylee tugged on her boots, harder than she needed to. Darkness. That’s what you are. The most unimaginative boots in the world. Bottomless. Pits. Of darkness
L aylee flipped over her pillow and tore off her eye mask. Useless thing. It was past 3 a.m. and she still couldn’t sleep. She’d had an honest and vulnerable conversation with Malky. She’d put herself out there and Malky had agreed to help. It had gone perfectly. So why can’t I sleep?
She got up and tiptoed across her bedroom bits and pieces of the conversation following her.
“… was really nice bumping into you today… It’s like this. Gavi really respects Yitz and I know he wishes he’d reconsider being involved in the shul…”
Malky had been genuinely surprised. “But there are so many people working on it! And after everything that happened with Katz… Yitz just feels like…” she trailed off awkwardly.
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