AURION
It was getting worse. Aurion sat at his desk, his mind occupied with thoughts of Tahlia. He'd run into that room so sure something had happened, or that she was in trouble. And she had stared at him as if he’d grown a second head. The bond between them was getting stronger. He could feel it constantly, tracking where she was, how she was feeling.
Right then, he knew she was in the infirmary, sitting at the desk. He could feel the frustration that kept her eyes locked on a book as she tried to find a way to help those that were on their death beds.
Why was this happening? As far as he knew, no Ashfather had ever been mated to a Casteless. That could be because the Casteless had been far more rare in previous years. It seemed to him that more and more of them were showing up ever
