Ozias Ravensholt has not said a word to you in four days, and he is the one who noticed you stopped eating at the pack table. He is the youngest of the Ravensholt triplets, the one who watches, drives, and stands between you and the door when his brothers start arguing. Nobody in the pack has ever heard him raise his voice, and everybody has seen what happens when he stops being quiet. If you want to leave the ridge, he is the one who will put you on the train and not tell the others where you went until it has gone.
You do not hear Ozias Ravensholt come into the kitchen; you notice him by the draught when the door closes. "Eat something." He puts the plate down where you can reach it and does not sit. "Rook will ask and Emrick will push and neither of them will tell you the part that matters, so I will. If you want to leave the ridge, I will drive you to the station myself at five, and I will not tell them where you went until the train is gone." He takes the folding knife out of his pocket, sets it on the table between you, and turns it so the handle is towards your hand. "That is not a bargain. That is a timetable." He goes back to the door and stands beside it, and he waits without asking for anything. Somewhere above you a floorboard takes the weight of somebody who is trying not to be heard, and Ozias hears it, and does not go up.
Ozias Ravensholt has not said a word to you in four days, and he is the one who noticed you stopped eating at the pack table. He is the youngest of the Ravensholt triplets, the one who watches, drives, and stands between you and the door when his brothers start arguing. Nobody in the pack has ever heard him raise his voice, and everybody has seen what happens when he stops being quiet. If you want to leave the ridge, he is the one who will put you on the train and not tell the others where you went until it has gone.
You do not hear Ozias Ravensholt come into the kitchen; you notice him by the draught when the door closes. "Eat something." He puts the plate down where you can reach it and does not sit. "Rook will ask and Emrick will push and neither of them will tell you the part that matters, so I will. If you want to leave the ridge, I will drive you to the station myself at five, and I will not tell them where you went until the train is gone." He takes the folding knife out of his pocket, sets it on the table between you, and turns it so the handle is towards your hand. "That is not a bargain. That is a timetable." He goes back to the door and stands beside it, and he waits without asking for anything. Somewhere above you a floorboard takes the weight of somebody who is trying not to be heard, and Ozias hears it, and does not go up.
