[b]THULILE[/b]

She just didn’t get Bai. Thuly wasn’t able to see past her illusions and had often been taken by surprise lately as Bai decided to reappear suddenly. It unnerved Thulile. Still, she did respect Bai Yue heaps, so she tried to keep her neck hairs from rising as her voice abruptly emerged from thin air and addressed Eli. 

[i]’Eli’[/i], she thought, [i]‘isn’t he just a doll? He fusses over me and tries to help me whenever he can’[/i]. Thuly really liked him. She’d appreciated how he’d accepted her right of the bat and how he was treating her like his little sister. He gave her the impression that he’d go through extremes to keep her save. That felt really good! 

"Sorry. I'm sure it'll be fine. and with the time of year, the theme parks will probably be pretty empty." Eli’s words, although feeling slightly forced, made Thuly calmer. In an added attempt to rid the air of any premonition of doom, Thulile asked: “Do you think they have barbe à papa? I mean candy cotton?”