Cyril comes to as many open classes as he can, but the ones he enjoys most are the ones that are just between him and Taas. They're able to build on the knowledge that Taas has already given him and carry on fragmented sentences. He's getting better every day.

"How do you think I'm doing?" he asks, after one of their lessons finishes. Things between them haven't changed, even after Taas had told him that he was loved. Honestly, neither of them had wanted much to change. Still, sometimes when they were alone those words lingered in Cyril's mind.

Right now, it fueled his desire to learn to speak to Taas in all ways possible.