Bab 133: • Shadow And Ice

Nero turned to Spheris who was looking straight ahead, forthright, with that usual emptiness painted on his face.

"Water?" he asked, offering Spheris the bottle.

Spheris looked down at it and after a short consideration, accepted the flagon. He uncapped it and took numerous gulps of it down, careful of course not to finish it.

Then, he handed it back to Nero.

They stayed like this for a while. Silent. Watching the rest of the team dissolve into smaller chatter and the fire flicker satisfyingly by the side.

Spheris wouldn't have minded this. If there was anything he loved more than enjoying the silence, it was sharing the enjoyment of silence with another person.

In fact, this was something he realized quite recently.

However, Nero finally decided to speak. "Why did you say that to me?" was his question.

Spheris glanced at him for a moment, then returned his gaze forward. "Say what?"

"That I am a good person?"