The Villain's Hero
“Move on. She’s not here.”
We waited until we were sure they were gone. “I like books,” I told him quietly.
“Books?” Aien raised an eyebrow. “That’s a rather wide subject.”
“I like stories,” I blushed. “I like learning about the past, reading the stories of other people’s lives and adventures. In Uyan Taesil, there is a library so very full of books that I feel I could read every day for the remainder of my life and never reach the end of them. That seems like a great shame, don’t you think? That there are stories right there on the shelves, on that parchment, that I will never know, and that, perhaps, no one else will either, for I’m quite certain that, other than my father, no one ever goe