I had never been inside a building like this one before, and I found it difficult to adjust to being confined. I was glad that I got to spend more time with Ares, but I hated being trapped in the room and I was afraid of what would happen if one of the humans spotted me.
It didn’t help that he kept on leaving me alone because I had nothing to do here and I couldn’t stop myself imagining him spending his time with Zaahra while I was here alone.
We were supposed to talk. I wasn’t entirely sure what Ares thought that would achieve, but he had decided it was what we should do and so I tried to spend my time alone thinking of how to respond if he asked me what I wanted or what he thought we should do.
I looked at the books that Aleks had provided me with again - one of them was blank, and I
