*Rose*

“Adam, I told you–I’m fine!” I shout after the Beta as he does his best to get Kelly back into my room. From the way he’s hollering, one might think I was dying.

“I see blood!” he shouts. “And if you’re bleeding, that’s a problem for me!” He makes a face and looks away, and I have to wonder how in the world he manages to fight in battles and those sorts of things when there has to be a lot more blood in a situation like that than what just happened to me.

I went to pick up my plate of peanut butter and pickles and one of...