<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#a6ff4d">“And if we don’t accept your offer?” </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ccff99">Alya spoke before her brother even had the chance to. She was suspicious of such an arrangement, to say the least, as eager as she was to learn. She wanted to know her options, and her brother’s. After all, he’d seemed quite intent on keeping them together, so it stood to reason that one’s choice would directly affect the other one. </span><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi almost seemed startled by his sister’s quick, and rather blunt reaction, though he said nothing. Out loud. </span><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6">&lt;Alya this is why we let me do the talking?&gt;</span></i>