Moonspear The line is where the night lies

I know I’m young, she said as soon as Alaric prompted her, before she could lose her nerve, and that you helped raise me. But I was hoping you’d maybe… Pie paused, her pulse thready. She choked out the rest, It would mean a lot if you’d consider me, in the future.

She realized she might need to specify what she meant. But Treepie quietly hoped Alaric might understand what she was trying to say, so she wouldn’t have to spell out the rest. It was hard to raise her yellow gaze to his, though she forced her eyes upward, willing him to not only read between the lines but hopefully not reject what he found there.