Sky and Moon, Part I

It was easy to push down all that she was at first—there was no need for her to be anything else aside from the haughty and unapproachable mageling. But what he mistook for haughtiness was what pride she still held despite the histories evading her most of her life. What he mistook for unapproachable was the wall she built over time to prevent others from seeing her as weak and easy to exploit. The same way he used the hard lessons learned from his youth to forge protection against the cutthroat nature of Undermount’s political landscape, Ashala built what she could with the materials she had and it worked.