Chapter Six

"So what's the deal with you and Aaron?" Lillith demanded.

It was the third time she'd tried this line of questioning in as many days, and so far I'd managed to avoid both it and her.  

"Nothing."

Burney snorted and I shot him a dirty look. 

"What? We all know it started when I took you to see him."

"It did?" Lills asked, latching onto the new information. 

"They were yelling at each other from the moment we got there."

"They're always doing that," She said, dismissing it with a shrug.

"Are you serious? No wonder he's been crabby since he got back."

I raised an eyebrow. "You mean he's not usually so... pig headed?" 

I'd noticed his decline in mood on the outside, it was hard to miss, but I thought that was just our restless lifestyle taking its toll on him like it had on the rest of us. 

"Nope. Well, he's always had a temper, but not like this. What were