Role

Chapter 10

It's funny how a little careless flirting, carried on through stubborness,
can simmer in a mind and heart and grow into actual affection. Oirwn
found a challenge in Leric, and she liked it because nothing is worth
doing if it doesn't require any effort. He was two sides of the same coin,
often the playful fool, and just as often the obsessed researcher of things
strange and arcane. The thief's appetite for knowledge seemed to greatly
disturb other lightwalkers, who forsaw him going down a path of destruction.
Oirwn found herself easily taking Leric's side in the matter, however,
perhaps because she too believed in the preservation of history, the discovery
of knowledge. She was a Herald, after all. But it was more than that. She
found herself delighting in his excitement and felt a strange ache in her heart
when his thoughts were troubled.

And so the flirting continued.