On the way back, Jasper walked with a steady pace, silent, hands in his pockets. The academy streets were gradually emptying, lanterns lighting up one by one. Usually, this kind of scenery provoked nothing in him. Yet that evening, his mind was not calm.
The dilemma Julian, that idiot, had just gone through kept coming back.
'If it were me in that situation, what would I have done?'
The question surged without warning again and again in his head, annoying him just by thinking about it.
'Would I simply have let Lynn go?'
He stopped for a fraction of a second, just long enough to realize the absurdity of that idea.
"No, that's impossible... I need her." It wasn't an emotional response. It was an indisputable fact.
