"Ha!" Revon laughed, "Girl, my legitimacy is not what is on trial here."
"Oh, but I think it is," Kaya said and then laughed a little because as she spoke, things began to make even more sense,
"You know, I never let myself think it was you. When that oppressive air bore down on my shoulders and made me want to run as far away from the Manor and never look back, I tried not to think it was you who wanted me gone so badly.
I suspected everyone else; Kyrus, Kaide, Lillian, even the Manor workers. Everyone except you.
Hell, rather than suspect you, I was more open to the idea that it had nothing to do with me. That I just happened to be the one perceptive enough to sense it."
"What are you getting at?" Revon asked.
"I'm just saying, maybe I wasn't entirely wrong. Yes, I'm a consequential target of your emotions but I'm more of a representation of what's really bothering you. The one the unwantedness targeted was actually you.
