Counting the Hours

***Kaelen***

This summit was already more effort than I wanted to put in. A circus of politics, handshakes, fake smiles, exactly the kind of thing that drained me. Grandpa had been trying to make small talk all damn day, but I only entertained him when it was directly related to the summit. Otherwise, I kept my responses clipped and my attention elsewhere.

Truthfully, I was just counting the hours