I paced the room as Aurion sat in the bed watching me. I hadn’t been able to keep laying there with his words between us. So, I paced, back and forth. I barely even noticed that I wasn’t wearing anything. It didn’t seem to matter in front of him. I felt like I could share everything with him. It was only my own will that kept the words of everything I had been doing from tumbling out of my mouth.
Then, I stopped and looked at him. “I didn’t mean to be seen as Casteless. I didn’t have a plan for it. There’s no great scheme.”
“I know,” he said with a nod. He was still calm, sitting there, watching me. If anything, there was affection in his gaze, and I frowned at him.
“You know?”
“Yes. I know.”
“What do you think you know?”
Aurion raised a brow, then sighed. “I was told a story today,
