I set the book down and looked towards Alastair who looked at the book for a moment until he looked back up at me. We looked into each other's eyes for a moment until he spoke up.
"That day we met…Did you choose me because it was me, or was it something else?"
"Why else wouldn't I have chosen you?"
He shrugged and turned back to his papers, and I turned back to read the rest of the book. Alastair would walk back to his every so often to drop off the finished papers and return with a new stack. We stayed like this until the sun had gone down. As we turned into bed, Alastair told me he would send a letter to the Soft Shore Kingdom king and leave in two days.
