Noctisardor Bypass He's a little distant, loves a little different.

Sorry she’s taking it pretty poorly. I think this will be my last.

It wasn’t like her to shut down like this, though Druid couldn’t help it. She said nothing further, merely nodding to acknowledge she’d heard him. She knew he’d felt out of place for as long as he’d lived here. It would be selfish ask Etienne to stay when he wanted, needed, to go. She refused to do it.

But now she thought she was getting a taste of it herself, this feeling of being irrelevant and unwanted. After all, if Etienne left to make room for Anselm and Heda to build a life together, then where did that leave Druid?