Voren froze for a moment, her words sinking into him far deeper than he wanted them to. Had it truly become that obvious? Had the weight he had been carrying finally started showing on his face for everyone around him to see?
Whenever things became too much for him, Ravyn had always been the person he turned to. Ravyn understood him in ways most people never could, and there had been countless times when Voren walked into a conversation with him feeling like the entire world was crashing down on his shoulders, only to walk away feeling lighter, calmer, and more capable of handling whatever came next.
But things were different now.
Ravyn was already carrying more than enough burdens of his own, and with Voren secretly helping Seraphine, there was simply too much room for something to go wrong.
One wrong word, one careless expression, one moment of lowered guard, and everything could fall apart before he even had the chance to stop it.
