IRYN'S POV

"What have you been up to all morning?" Nyall asks suddenly.

“I needed… something to do,” I tell him honestly, and he nods in response.

“You’re allowed to need that.”

Surprisingly I let out a light hearted scoff, “Try telling that to Fenric.”

"Oh?" He mutters in question, raising his eyebrows at me.

"And what makes you say that?"

A small smile scrapes out of me then, and I tilt my head up a bit more. “He gave me a training session.”

“I know,” Nyall ...