“Um.” I swallowed the lump in my throat. “Before we reached the Air Temple, for sure.”
She sighed. “I just don’t know how I can trust you anymore.”
“I’m sorry I kept this from you, but please try to understand. I’m the youngest prince, with enough older siblings to make sure I’ll never be king. In my family, I’m the odd one out who was always in the library instead of attending balls and dealing with politics. I never cared about any of that and so to them I’ve always been inconsequential. So yes, I am a prince, but at the same time, nothing about me has changed.”
She nodded slowly. “Are you hiding anything else from me?”
“Not exactly,” I said. “There’s nothing I am hiding. Simply things I haven’t chosen to share yet. Surely you can understand that. There are lots of things you haven’t
