Goodbye Alpha, You Can Never Win Me Back
And Leith sat cross-legged on the floor beside me, a leather-bound book open in his lap, reading aloud in a voice that had grown progressively more monotone over the last twenty minutes.
"'And so the maiden crossed the silver river,'" he read, "'her heart heavy with the knowledge that the kingdom she had left behind would never—'" He sighed, closed the book, and turned to our father. "She can read, Father. She has two functioning eyes and a perfectly good education. Why am I doing this?"
Aldric looked down at him. "What do you do all day?"
"I — what? I train. I run border patrols. I—"