Surprisingly, they did learn quite a lot about Echo during the dating game. The game was done as a sort of speed dating - with questions being taken from both the contestants and, on occasion, the audience. It seemed to Elise that Echo wasn’t really reticent about answering personal questions; it was the party that was reticent to ask him, as they were afraid of stepping on his toes. Seeing him speak freely, if a bit cooly, made her rethink her own approach to their friendship.
Most of what they learned were the kind of ‘get to know you’ things that people often asked on dates, but which they’d never really bothered with - about his family, who were minor nobility in the Zircyn Empire. He was just twenty years old, a second son with no title, and had spent his life as a ‘civil servant’ be
