Kaleeth looked at Janius with uncertainty in her eyes. So much had happened in the course of only a few days that she didn't know how easy it would be to go back to caring for him. For the entire four days she was missing, she thought about her father, and everything he said about Janius. He told her how he would ruin her life, and how he wouldn't care about her forever. She repeated those things so much to herself that she started to believe them. She wasn't the type of person that would want to be outwardly aggressive and angry like her father, but she had convinced herself that Janius didn't really care about her. Now, her faith in that conclusion was starting to waver. It was a bad idea for them to get together to begin with, but maybe his affections were real? He was risking his own health considerably by training her. Maybe their love was stupid and ill-advised, but there was no going back now. No way to get to her old life. That mistake was already made, and staying away from Janius would not change that.

Once again, Kaleeth had a hard time thinking straight with all the emotions flowing through her mind: love, hate, excitement, anxiety, she couldn't decide how she felt. Once more, after a minute or so of silence, she stopped thinking and just started acting. Suddenly, and without warning, she wrapped her arms around him and rolled back onto him, kissing him passionately. It was probably another mistake, but it was one she was glad to make.