Another #snippetSaturday
So, I may have let this slide while the Scavenger Hunt was going on, and I may have totally forgotten to do it last week, but this week I'm remembering! A short glimpse of Snow White and the Seven Dwarf Planets :)
“I can’t believe it,” she said, trying without success to keep her smile at bay. A lot had happened in a short period of time, but this latest development was the first thing to give her real hope since they’d found the list of doomed contacts.
“Pretty unbelievable,” Hunter said, his flat tone sucking all the happiness out of Snow, wiping the smile from her face.
He held onto the controls with a white-knuckle grip, his eyes intently focused on the navigation panel.
“How far is it?” she asked.
“Should be less than an hour from here. We already passed the proximity marker.”
“Oh, good. I can’t wait to hear what information he has for us.”
“For you,” Hunter said, his jaw clenched.
“For us,” she corrected. Or was he hoping to be rid of her now that she’d made contact with the rebellion? Was she their problem now? She’d thought that Hunter wanted to be a part of this. He’d certainly resisted her trying to dismiss him every step of the way.
His fingers flexed on the steering column and the muscles in his jaw ticced, like he was chewing on the words he kept locked away.
“I think it was made perfectly clear that I’m not supposed to be privy to the information,” he said, bitterness edging into his tone.
“I don’t think that was—”
“It was,” Hunter spat, glaring at the navigation panel with such intensity that Snow thought it might just crack under the pressure.
“I’m sure he’s just cautious about who he trusts,” she said. She should be cautious too. She knew it, but still wanted to reassure Hunter for some reason.
When Hunter didn’t answer, she tried again. “I wouldn’t take it personally. He’s been hiding from the Queen for who knows how long. He’s probably a little paranoid.” More than a little. Plick’s reminder played more insistent than ever in her mind.
Trust no one.
“You don’t have to soothe my ego, Princess. He’s right. You shouldn’t trust me.”
