Moonspear You can't be too careful anymore

Alya had been heading further into the territory rather than the borders, but she saw no reason not to backtrack with Dirge. She did not know much about him aside from what Hydra had said, and Hydra did not wax poetic about her suitors the way Alya did.

"So, where do you come from?" Alya asked, wondering why he had left. She and her sisters has vague, tentative plans to strike out on their own at some point, but it seemed so far off and was more like a happy daydream than a real plan. How had Dirge decides to leave his parents?

She kept her pace slow and measured, wanting to get as much out of him as she could while she had him. It would be good practice to see how much she could get him to tell her.