Kaya frowned slightly, the question slipping from her lips before she could stop herself.
"How do you even know all this?"
Veer looked at her, then suddenly let out a short laugh. "pfft haha, honey, you're joking, right?"
Kaya blinked, not amused.
He softened, leaned closer. "Look at me. I'm a vulture—I spend my life in the sky. Not just me, all of us. Do you know how often our eyes get irritated from wind, dust, sun? It happens all the time. That's why our house always has water stored. The moment we come back from flying, we wash our faces. Always."
Something clicked in Kaya's mind. The large bath she had seen in his room, always brimming with water, no matter how much she used… she'd never seen a pond or stream nearby to refill it, and yet it was always full. So this was the reason.
