<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi nodded when he brought up Illian’s name. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“He said something to her… something that dredged up a lot of problems I had thought we’d overcome a while ago…” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">he said softly.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> “I’m not sure even he knows just how much what he said would affect her.”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he tried to think about how to explain this better, already feeling like he was getting off on the wrong foot.</span>