That’s your mom, right?” Pathik smiled. “She looks nicer than she did when she was dragging you away the other night.

Don’t you see? You can’t be brave without being afraid. The brave ones are always afraid. But they do what they must, even so.

Look, we need to make time, but we also need to be somewhat quiet.” She faced him. “I am being quiet!”Pathik held a finger up to his lips. “Seriously. Quite. You don’t really want to...