Elowen's POV
After breakfast, Kael drove us to the market district in the Northern Reach and went straight to the upper level without telling me where we were going.
I figured it out when he stopped outside a clothing shop that specialized in undergarments, and I suddenly wished I'd never opened my mouth at the breakfast table. He told me to go in and pick whatever I needed while he waited outside, and the way he said it was so flat and practical that you'd think he was sending me in for bread. My legs took a second to remember how to move.
Back in Duskbloom, my mother had always handled all my clothing from the skin out. I'd never once picked out my own undergarments and I wasn't even sure of my exact size, which felt like a ridiculous thing to not know at my age but there it was.
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