Normally this would be a conversation they would laugh at and argue, but this isn't really a laughing kind of situation. "I know Asher. I was just pointing out if they are trouble enough then someone who didn't have to live in a Circle would more then likely do just that." Eat him alive that is, and you wanted him to try and flirt with that - are you really looking out for him or getting him in trouble?

The bitterness doesn't go unnoticed, and Sam just stays quiet to let him rant a bit, lips thinning at hearing it. He's rather familiar with the aspect of lacking 'choice' but how is was put upon him was vastly different then Asher. At least, in some way, he had a place in the world - even if it was behind stone.

"Why did she tell you that?" He didn't know his own mom, but his aunt was hell of a role model and that just didn't seem like something a parent should do.