I heard Seth and Vera returning to our camp well before I saw them. Their footsteps seemed too loud as they crunched through the leaves in the dead of night.
"You're letting her make a fool of you." Vera wasn't speaking loudly but her voice carried well enough through the quiet night air. "The same way Jeremiah let Lola make a fool of him."
"Watch your tongue," Seth snapped. "I am nothing like Jeremiah and Pilar sure as hell isn't Lola."
"Pilar's idealistic and you're the idiot whose determined to make all her rainbow colored dreams come true. I fail to see the difference."
"Jeremiah should never have tried to overthrow the king," Seth said. "This is different. If we don't deal with Bud Moon and his people, there's a damn good chance that he'll decide to come after us."
"More like a slim chance. What would Bud Moon want with the Church of Chaos?"
Seth said something too quietly for me to make out his exact words. Vera laughed in response, but not like she was happy. The sound was as cold as the steel bars that had made up the walls of the prison cell apartment I'd grown up in.
Seth's voice came as a low growl in the night. I caught a few snatches of their conversation. Zombies and impossibly painful death. Their usual topics of conversation. Seth and Vera weren't exactly big on small talk.
There was a loud smacking sound and Seth cussed.
"You're a fool, Seth. You're a bloody damned fool." Vera came stomping past my bedroll. I waited until the sound of her footfalls faded in the direction of Gauge's small tent. The two of them had developed a relationship that was almost as bizarre as mine and Seth's during the last few weeks.
I waited until she had laid down before I slipped off my thin, burlap cover and went to go find Seth.
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