It’s the way he said the words. Low and dark and self assured. My cheeks are threatening to burn and I struggle to stamp it down. MORIA Tristen very visibly bristles. His eyes darken and his jaw ticks and I can see the effort it is taking for him to not hit Callum in the face. Callum smirks. He had been going for a reaction and he had gotten one. And I am instantly sick of both of them. I snap. “If you two self absorbed jerks are done, can someone tell me what you’re talking about?” Commander does. “You’re going to join the Academy.” “As my charge.” So Callum wasn’t a student of the Academy after all. He was a f*****g teacher. No wander it had been so easy for him to talk me into trying to control my powers. Tristen scoffs. “A Blood with a Siren for his charge, that would de