Chapter 111: The Weight of Ashes
Orion stared at her like he could not believe the person that was sitting next to him. And what was that impression of him she did? If there was one thing he was sure if, it was the fact that he did not sound like that. At all.
"I don't sound like that," he told her.
"You sure about that?" She asked him with a smug smile.
Orion huffed a laugh. "I know how I sound like and it's definitely not like that. I don't know where you got that impression from but it's not me."
Sophia's lips curved, the corners tugging upward with an almost smug calm. "Too bad, that's how you sound like to me," she replied, tone softer than before but no less insistent.
Orion scoffed as he drank from the wineskins. Sophia glared at him but he pretended not to notice.
There was a beat of silence between them but Orion knew her brain was already travelling a mile. She looked like she was mulling over what to tell him.
