The Price of Silence

[PRINCE CAIUS TORIN DRAVOS]

"How does it work?" I echo.

The human nods, her mind rampant with ways to explain her question. She toggles with a few, but when she lags, I speak.

"You mean to ask, how you can stop me from reading your mind?"

She stills at my correction.

Perhaps I spoke too soon. That is not the thought she wanted me to read, but that is the actual question she intended to ask.

Her li