Juliana stared at Vince for a long second.
Then she looked around the circle, her piercing blue eyes lingering on each of us in turn. On the fire. On our empty hands. On our hollow cheeks and tired smiles.
Finally, she did something none of us expected at that point.
She laughed.
And I meant an actual, real, breathy laugh. Not the soft heh she'd once given to Ray before.
Sure, it was short and faded far too quickly for my liking, but the damage was already done.
Vince's eyebrows shot up. "Holy shit. Did you guys hear that?"
"Okay, this might just be my hunger talking, but that," Lily gestured vaguely at her, "was beautiful!"
"I'll take your word for it," said Alexia.
"Someone should've recorded this historical event," Kang muttered.
"Way ahead of you!" Ray declared with his phone camera already pointed at us.
Juliana shot them both a glare sharp enough to cut stone. "Delete it."
