He was silent, but I didn’t need words to sense the change. I could feel him open up to me upon hearing my confession.
“Believe me…” I murmured. “I know better than anyone how you must feel.”
He gazed at me. “It’s no way to live, isn’t it?”
I huffed a short, awkward laugh in response, focusing my full attention back on stacking the books.
This time, the titles caught my attention, ranging from the history of our kingdom to the customs, cultures, and histories of our neighbors: the Vixens and the Bear-Shifters. And then there was one book in particular about something that I had never heard of before… nothing like anything Father ever discussed or that I’d read of in fairytales.
A strange word that rang of a time from long ago.
“Hu… humans…?” I repeated curiously. The word left a biz
