Jorick came back to the house in time to bundle Katelina up and head down to bed. She was too tired to demand answers, as she'd planned, so she made a mental note to press him later. He could only avoid her questions for so long. Though, she sometimes wondered if he was evasive naturally, or had come to be that way after some long uncounted number of years.

That was something she didn't like to think about, so she didn't. She curled up next to him in the ridiculous carved ...