He didn't want Elanna to come out and see his face as red as a monkey's butt; that would be embarrassing.
Kael didn't realize that while he mocked his own actions as more childish than a kindergarten student, he hadn't thought about love and romance, which are indeed more naive than kindergarten yet more mature than university students.
He soon heard noises coming from downstairs.
Without even lifting his head, his keen sense allowed him to detect people on the upper floors discreetly watching him.
"Female students from the Knight Academy?"
Kael knew very well that the girls' dormitory was always buzzing with gossip. A prodigy like Elanna, once discovered, would undoubtedly attract onlookers wherever the courting male showed up. People would stealthily hide in corners, chattering like sparrows.
It was just a role reversal from him watching others to others watching him.
