<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi smiled softly. He didn’t know why he was happy to hear that lucian had friends and hadn’t been completely alone before he brought the two of them here, but he was glad. It meant the man hadn’t been spending all his time alone since the incident with his previous apprentice, at least. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“If you keep that up, I don’t think you’ll let me go anywhere…”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he murmured. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">“And I’m assuming you did tell your friend you were coming…”</span>