I looked up to the table and frowned.

Easton grinned and pointed to his face. “Your face is alarming, which is not something I’ve ever said to a woman.”

“That’s not what I was going to say.” Cooper shook his head. “But that is quite a face you’re making.”

I sighed. “My face has subtitles again.”

Mei-Ling chuckled beside me.

“Your face looks like you’re in pain . . . or confused.” Savannah narrowed her eyes. “Though those are similar faces.”

Thiago picked up a garlic roll. “For shits and giggles, what were you just thinking about?”

“Lots of things. All the things. But specifically, my last train of thought was what’s stopping us from peeling the roof off Sweyn’s castle and letting the sun bake ‘em all?”

Silence.

Warner cursed and dropped his fork. “Why don’t we do that?”

“Tegan has that as one of our plans.” Bentley strolled into the living room, then practically dove for a garlic roll. “I asked why it wasn’t first and she said we have innocents in that castle and she refuses to have them be casualties of war, and that we’re not at that level yet.”

Constance smiled. “I’m happy with that answer.”

“I’m not,” Cooper grumbled. “Let’s just get the innocents out, then give them the sun.”

Everyone looked to Lily.

She threw her one good arm up. “I only give it to one person now.”

Easton pursed his lips. “I’ve been known to enjoy group activity in the past.”

Lily looked him straight in the eye, then squeezed her own shoulder, the one that Easton had injured in the Land of the Lore.

He hissed and flinched, then rolled that shoulder. “That’s cold, baby. Do it again.”

“Hey wait!” I glanced around. “Where’s my puzzle pig?”

Tai sat up straight and I realized he’d been hidden behind Kessler. “I have it. Again. We’re enemies now.”

Mei-Ling sighed. “I grabbed it while you were sparring with Tennessee to try and work on it. Then when I tapped out again, I handed it over to your Coven-mates, and one by one that pig has moved down the table. We’re all failures so far.”

Tai grunted and held it to the side. “Here you go, Star Boy. Your turn.”

Cooper took the puzzle pig and held it between himself and Savannah. The two of them immediately went to work on it.

Tenn re-emerged from downstairs, his mood significantly more sour than it was a few minutes ago. He sat in his seat at the far end of the table. Plates of food were immediately shoved in front of him. He grumbled and stabbed his pasta with his fork like he was punishing it. But after a few moments, he spotted the puzzle pig in Cooper’s hands. “What the hell is that?”