Stone Circle but why do I lie awake each night thinking

How cruel she thinks, of a father to abandon his son before his first birthday. Even her Aunt in all her contempt for Tauris and her siblings had not been so uncaring. But she will not share such sentiment, for fear of adding to Aquillius' pain.

But he baits her along anyway with an indication toward a pale eye laden with scarring and she can’t help but hold her eager ears closer. 

“You try to kiss a grizzly or something?”