At some point, we managed to get off of the horses—well, to phrase it better, I got off of the mare first, and Dae followed my lead. I believe that he chose to do that because he felt uncomfortable being the only one on the horse. He might have been able to do better in terms of chasing me if he stayed on it, but I think that he was also starting to realise that I wasn’t going to run away. At least not any time soon.
“What do you think about the council’s request?”
I had to admit that I was somewhat startled by the fact that he had actually gone ahead and brought it up, that he had been the first one to say something about it, and not me. I was so startled in fact, that my head turned to him, and although it would have been more fitting if he had already been staring at
