"Is there anything you remember about the masked auction?"
"I don't know if it will be 'elpful," Rose replied.
She wasn't sure what the purpose of the crown prince's question was, but it seemed more like he was trying to gather information than actually find out what had happened to her.
Caius tapped a finger on the armrest as he realized what seemed odd. She still addressed him incorrectly, something he had no plans to correct but her dialect wasn't as prominent as before. It wasn't possible that it had just changed… or was it that he hadn't noticed?
He didn't speak to her often. The longest conversation they had was before they even got to the castle. Caius frowned, wondering why he cared. It wasn't relevant to the conversation—and neither was the current conversation itself. He could get this information elsewhere, but here he was, asking her.
"It doesn't matter," he replied. "Any little detail is important."
