As she returned to her room, Lissana encountered Cassiel in one of the palace’s side corridors. He was walking slowly, as if the night’s fatigue still weighed heavily on him.
Lissana stopped.
“Do you have a moment?” she asked.
Cassiel looked up, barely surprised.
“Yes,” he replied. “Is something wrong?”
“No… well, yes. I wanted to ask you something.”
She glanced around, conscious of her surroundings.
“Can we go somewhere else?”
Cassiel nodded without asking questions.
“Sure.”
Lissana didn’t want to have that conversation in the hallway. She didn’t want Eren to hear a single word, not even by chance. Cassiel led her to a small sitting room, away from the palace’s bustling corridors. He closed the door behind them, and the silence became dense.
Cassiel was the first to speak.
“Wh
