Sun Mote Copse The thing about kinked tail

Towhee had asked this to Wraen before and then just as now she did not know the answer. She pondered on this for a while and ended up with nothing better than a shrug: "I don't know. Never thought of being in love with him, but I like him and he is my friend." In the aftermath of the conversation they had just had, the sovereign realized that she knew for sure only about herself and had never asked Arcturus take on their friendship. Did he think there was more? Did he want to?

"Why do you ask?" she searched Towhee's expression, having a feeling that unlike Niamh's feminine curiousity that knew no shame, the regent might have an entirely different purpose in mind. Not just gossip.