Chapter 14 : For Just a Taste

Valerian’s POV

My future partner was hilarious. That’s all I could think of at the sight of her.

I meant that in the best way though. Humans were so young sometimes, they just didn’t understand how they appeared, thinking they were mature and wizened compared to other humans.

They didn’t know that there was something else to compare to and in turn, oftentimes it felt like they were wearing too big shoes and wouldn’t be able to compare.

Eleonore Everwood seemed to have the opposite of that problem. Rather than ill-fitting, the shoes were the right size, she knew exactly what she was, how she appeared to the rest of the world, and the conformity I usually saw in the race was lost on her.

Not from a lack of care or even her father’s influence to keep her malleable and under his thumb, she was just well aware of how powerless she was and didn’t try to act like she wasn’t and was just living to the best of her abilities.

Humans were funny like that, and for her, who had no ID