Dean looked down at Boreas's massive head on his leg and thought, with a clarity that made him want to bite someone unpleasant, that Arion was not building walls because he was dramatic. He was building them because men in this world saw openings and named them 'necessity' until no one remembered there had been a person inside them first.
Nero watched the realization finish arranging itself across Dean's face and, for once, did not make it worse.
That was the exact moment the door opened again.
Arion looked exactly like a man who had spent two hours in a room with three of the most powerful people in three empires and had decided that the world outside this suite was entirely too loud.
