"Your ex-fiance?" Syryn spluttered. "Didn't you get engaged just not too long ago?"
Qairu headed to a spiral staircase in the centre of the empty room they'd entered.
"Yes, and I disengaged, the results of which have been disastrous, to say the least. But I am now a single and disowned man, completely cut off from the family that I hate. Life couldn't be better."
Syryn followed closely behind Qairu, and Red led their rear with Navi.
"What about Alka? He doesn't know you're disengaged," a silly term, but one that fit their context.
"Syryn, we don't talk about that in this house."
"So you're going to let him continue to believe that you're engaged. But why?"
Qairu smiled at the mage. "Have you not considered that perhaps I don't feel for Alka as I used to?"
