C10 TEN

Be A Man

DRAKE

Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!

— William Shakespeare, Othello

I HADN'T GIVEN thought to how Beleth and I would get to wherever we were going. I guess I assumed a car, like a normal person.

Nope.

Beleth had other plans, yanking me off the ground and flying into the sky so high I would have turned into a red splat of nothing had he dropped me