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“Yeah? So, you made a friend?”
“Yes, she is very nice. Possibly the only friend I may have for a while.” She answers, and I feel more in that statement.
“Why do you say that? How has everyone been?”
She hesitates, not giving me an immediate answer. I get up in the tub.
“Aria?”
“Um, they are okay.”
“Aria…” I step out of the tub and dry my feet and I walk to her with a towel still drying myself.
She doesn’t look up and just continues lining the food in the large plate.
“Aria, what’s wrong? Has anyone treated you badly?” My blood starts boiling inside of me.
I know I wanted to lay my head down for our family’s sake, but if anyone has been unkind to her then all that is out of the window. If there is one thing I won’t tolerate, it is disrespect to Aria. Only over my corpse will that happen.
“No, of course not.”
“Then why are you closing off.”
“I’m a foreigner in this land, Igor, not everyone is jumping to give me a hug. I understand.” She says, but she isn’t okay.
“Has anyone treated you badly or made you feel uncomfortable?” I turn her face to me.
“No,” she lies.
“A—”
“Igor, I am fine. Don’t worry.”
I don’t let her go.
She sighs, then she says. “Why is Azula mean to everyone? Does she hate you?”
I tense a little.
“Igor?”
I let go of her face, knowing I need to tell her. “Azula is who I was almost mated to. She’s the one who betrayed me.”
“What?” The stew in the spoon she’s holding spills. “Frack.” She takes a cloth, wanting to rush for it but I hold her.
“Aria.”
She looks up at me.
“Azula? And you?” She asks.
“It was a long time ago. I was a different person and…” My words fail. “I don’t love her. I am not in love with her. I am yours. Only yours.” I hold her gaze.
“I guess it was a hundred years ago and she is mated to Todo.” She says.
I bend down and pick up the spoon from the floor. “Yes, it was, and she is, and I am glad they ended up together. They deserve each other.”
“Why?” She asks and hands me the cloth to wipe the floor.
