A Bond Unforeseen

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

My eyes shift in hers, my immortal peering through.

She spots this and presses her lips, "I have wisdom to give Rafe, if only you ask."

When I remain quiet, hesitant, uncertain, perhaps even selfish about what I want to keep, I see her eyes drift away from me, her body twisting back to the window.

Just when I think she’s given up, she speaks again, albeit, quieter than be