Safe

"What are you doing, you fool?" Maven muttered to himself as he crept through the palace hallway to Mare's room.

If he got caught, he couldn't even imagine the severity of the scolding his mother would lash out. He could always use the excuse that he was just visiting her to get her to further trust him.

Except he wasn't so sure Elara would buy that. She wasn't an idiot, and had seen the way her son had been looking at the little lightning girl. He was falling for her, and everyone knew it."