Control

"You okay?"

Anna asked Shuule a third time, her voice finally breaking through the haze, as the fox had frozen.

They had a plan for everything, but not a plan for this. Whatever "this" was. All the careful thoughts about how to get Harvey out, stockpiling weapons and food, they had nothing defend Set while he was asleep. It was a glaring blind spot, but then again, Set himself had done most of the planning. Of course he didn't think about what would happen to him, while he was preparing to make sure Shuule would be okay.

Shuule shook her head vigorously, rubbing her eyes with both hands. Now wasn't the time to lose it.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm here," she stammered.

"You have to move back in here," Anna exclaimed intensely, Iro staring blankly ahead as he tapped his fingers on the couch. The girls' thought he was annoyed about Shuule moving into his house - which he was - but he was having his own moment, considering what was going wrong.