Anna pressed her lips together, tilting her head back. A look of concentration passed over her face as she chose her words. “Our school system is similar to yours,” she began. “With the younger students separated from the older. I excelled in languages and physics. I bonded with my Nassai at the age of sixteen.”
Jack blinked.
Crossing her arms, Anna grinned and bowed her head to stare into her lap. “It"s very young, I agree…” A heavy sigh escaped her. “Most people are not bonded until they reach the age of twenty-one, but my case involved special circumstances.”
“Care to share?”
“My father and I were on journey to Alastra,” she explained, “a colony world near the edge of Leyrian Space. It was my first time off world. My father is a diplomat and he was attending trade negotiations with
