"I'm just tired," Karla admitted. "I graduate in a little more than a month. I'll be making my Offering to the Darkness in just a few weeks. I'm studying tactics and strategies and maps and things practically in my sleep because I'll be leading a Territory to war. I'm overtired and grumpy."

Beat.

"Also, the rum was gone last week, and the squirrels were on strike. I bet that has people still annoyed."