Aldric was presented as the anchor and interpreter for the parts that required translation. A thirty-minute window. Cassius somewhere in the deeper Realm, in whatever configuration Cassius occupied when not in full physical presence.
I sat in on the first four and then stopped because I understood that my presence was changing what happened. Alaric said things to Cassius that he might not have said with me there — not secrets, not anything I needed to be protected from knowing, but things that were his to have.
A relationship that was his own, not mediated through me.
What I did instead was wait in the hallway and talk to him afterward.
He always came out and sat on the bench across from my room's door and told me the relevant parts. The updates on Cassius's research into Vael — ongoi
