I owe her a lot. Where I come from, having abilities makes your life very difficult, so I hid mine. She helped me open up to using them here.

(Their first meeting at the peace summit had been significant for both of them, but seeing a magic Summoned so freely use theirs, the connection she had to hers, made him step a little closer to where he is now. He still keeps his gifts close to the chest with Cadens at large, but with the Summoned, he's open about it. And he has gotten so good at using them that he achieved corecloth.

From there, they became closer and closer, sharing a lot of their personal backgrounds, and now they're family. Jesper makes a face which he knows Matt can't see at the question.)

Oh Saints no, I don't tell her about my lovers. She's like my sister, it would be weird.