Castian wasn't sure how long he listened to Harmony go on but he was rather fascinated. Not because he was particularly interested in merfolk but because he had never heard her talk like this before.
Was this the true face of the witch? He was willing to bet it was.
Witches were known for being the mad scientists of the fae world. They and elves were two sides of the same coin. Both goal-oriented and clinical but witches were far more enthusiastic because of how much they loved magic.
Castian had never seen it firsthand before last week but now that he had, he wondered how Harmony had ever managed to act so low-key around him all these years when her natural state was like this. Probably because she saw their relationship as no more than their duty the same way he did.
That thought was oddly unsettling. Why? Why would that matter? That was how things had been from the start and more than twenty years of this arrangement hadn't changed them.
