Lucas continued on quietly for a few more minutes. This was not a question he was prepared to answer. He also wondered what else Leyla had been speaking about with Eva.
"Yes, that is a thing that can happen."
He would have to tell her sooner or later. Suddenly promising to tell her anything but the secret arts sounded like a bad idea. Teaching her the secret arts would actually be easier.
How would he explain that he was imprinted upon her from the first moment they met. That he was so fixated on her that he couldn't help but check on her constantly to the point that someone had always been shadowing her.
That would just make him sound obsessed, right?
"Is that something, the deeper connection, happening with us? Even though we are not two elves?"
Eva's questions came out awkwardly, like she didn't know how to phrase her question. Lucas slowed down to a walk and set Eva down where she could sit on a log that had fallen over.
