[Realm: Álfheimr]
[Location: The Great Forest]
"Traversing realms?"
Puck echoed the words before she seemed to realize she'd spoken at all. Her small body drifted a little higher as she tilted her head, slowing unconsciously, eyes narrowing with genuine confusion.
Al'tari felt much the same—but where Puck's confusion leaned toward curiosity, Al'tari's hardened into something else. Grimm had been like this since entering their domain. Focused, observant… and then suddenly elsewhere, his attention snapping away as though the world had tugged on a thread and pulled his thoughts with it.
It unsettled her.
He had shown interest in the fairy lands—real interest, not the shallow fascination outsiders often carried—but the question itself had nothing to do with the forest, or the Queen, or even them. It was too broad.
As if he were already thinking beyond this place.
