Numair quickly regained his composure enough to say grimly,
"Daine? Jonathan needs us"
The girl jumped at the sound of his voice and pulled herself away from Evin's embrace. Keeping her eyes on her teacher, she walked up to him.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"No idea. I suggest we go search for him and find out" he replied coldly.
"Yes, of course. See you later, Evin" she replied breezily, trying unsuccessfully to lighten the atmosphere. The forced herself not to turn round and look at the confused rider.
Numair and Daine walked for a while in silence, Numair taking long strides with Daine hurrying by his side. Eventually, as she was started to lose her breath, she decided she'd had enough of the silent treatment.
"What's wrong, Numair?"
"With me? Nothing at all"
"It doesn't look like nothing at all to me." She muttered, "If it's about Evin, we're just friends. He was just happy to see me after so long."
"From what I hear, he was happy to see you last night, too" he returned, stony faced, looking straight in front of him.
"Numair! You can't be suggesting that me n Evin are… canoodling? We're just friends, like I said." She was lost for words, she didn't know what to say to convince him. She wasn't exactly sure why she HAD to convince him.
"Well, what with Kaddar, Perin, Evin…" he started, but didn't go on. He stopped in front of the castle.
"Well, what about them?" Daine repied, angrily. Flicking unruly curls from her face, she turned to face him, glaring up at her teacher.
He took a deep breath and returned her look. Slowly, he bent down, so he was at her eye line.
"I'm sorry, Magelet" he murmured "I guess it's hard for you to know the effect you can have on men. Even without you knowing it."
"ME?!" This conversation was getting too strange for her liking.
"Yes, you. Now, shall we go see what Jon wants?" Without waiting for an answer, he opened the door and led the way to the King's study.
