"Someone like me," Raine repeated, as if examining the phrase. "Mortal? Emotionally attached?"

She shook her head in the moment after, dismissing the question. "Nightmares aren't uncommon when one's been through trauma. Alone, Wan and Anton would have been correct. Paired with the other symptoms, anyone would have worried." She tapped her fingers against her other arm, thinking, and when she went on her words were slow and deliberate. "I am familiar with the way centuries of living make change slow. However, you need to understand two things. First, that your right to pride and privacy ends where it begins to harm other people. Second, that if there is anyone in the world you may feel safe revealing weakness around, it is Anton and Wan."

Honestly. She knew friendship was a foreign concept to Valdis, but she hadn't thought learning would come this slow.