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It was hard to sit there perfectly still when he wanted to drop his head into his hands and curl into a little ball So much of his life, the isolation of his clan, had been built on the idea that dragons were evil betrayers If that wasn’t true, as?

Rage washed through his veins, leaving hi his teeth He didn’t knohat to believe, who to trust Well, that ansas easy and obvious He could trust only hi the truth, or this could all be an elaborate lie He just didn’t know anymore

Baldewin slid his phone back over to rest in front of him “Hmm Odd, come to think of it, we had to teach the others the saloss over the reason in school when they teach it?” Baldewin scratched at his chin and drank soate this”

“No skin off my nose if you want to leave now, but pay on, the sooner he could conduct his own research There had to be a library around here somewhere Libraries were always free Websites were easy to create Books took longer Books were safer

“Nein, I still have thirty minutes with you I plan to use them” Baldewin tucked his phone away and leaned forward, both ar on the table “Now, you’ve read for yourself eren’t the bad guys Does that make you trust me a little more?”

“Not one iota”

Well, sort of

Fuck! He didn’t knohat to think any longer His clan lied to hions were supposed to be evil He’d grown up believing that He couldn’t suddenly stop and trust a dragon without real proof Right?

Of course, Tori wasn’t about to give Baldewin the i up “I still don’t understand what you want froive you kids, so why pursue me?”

Baldewin blinked at hi children is ie spouses Our ic to us Without them, we’d be lost”

That sounded nant and sincere than Tori had expected It was almost as if Baldewin spoke on a personal level It disarh that he didn’t ie, huh”