Julia saw him as a nuisance when she first met the man before her. Grandmaster Yuvan took an interest in a logistic student, and it made her feel like he was hogging all her hard work. It worsened when Yuvan brought Oriole in as an assistant to groom him, and Alexie Linan followed.
Oriole was a natural genius. His hands treated runes and biological tissues as his playthings, which he handled a thousand times before. There were many occasions where he even forgot to use some tools used to correct runic paths but still ended with astonishing results.
This made Julia unable to complain about his existence, but even that genius treated Alexie carefully and fondly. It made her wonder why this man was remarkable, but she realized it when he saved her from the intruders.
Alexie was a mountain.
