Ellio, unable to form the right words, shifted his gaze away. His eyes settled on a small floating island not too far from where they stood, where a male and female phoenix played with their offspring.
Laughter echoed faintly through the air. Light, warm, untouched. They looked complete. A family.
Ellio watched them quietly, but his mind drifted somewhere far beyond the highlands.
“It’s fine, I guess,” he muttered, brushing off whatever Azure had been trying to pry from him earlier.
He wasn’t the type to lay his thoughts bare, not like this, not to someone else. Not to someone he met just yesteday. Azure is still a complete stranger to him. But even if they were the closest friends, Ellio doubts if he could ever tell anybody about the matters of his heart. Even he himself cannot find
