Soren at Ten

Sophia's POV

I told him everything when he was ten.

This was the agreement we had made five years earlier, when he had stood in my doorway with his gold eyes and his patience and asked for the full story and accepted when you're older with the equanimity of someone who understands that time is a resource rather than an obstacle. He had not raised the subject again in the intervening years. He had simply waited, with the absolute confidence of a person who trusts that what they have ...