If they don't want us attached to people, we shouldn't have mentors either, and yet. [He shrugs with a short, wry laugh. The Order is full of contradictions, and he's certainly not afraid to voice that. Better everyone knows what they're getting into.

He wants to ask what she means by that, ask what the temple has become by the time she's reached his current age, but instead he simply finds himself nodding, even past his apparent confusion. There's time enough for that later. Home is a different matter entirely. For them both.]

It might not be the same still [obvious from how their concepts of home have merged into one another], but I would be happy to.