<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff99">Illian froze for a brief moment at the mention of Ayla. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff4d"><i>Why couldn’t he just handle this between us, the coward. Or better yet, stay out of his apprentices business. He obviously didn’t trust her if he was watching that close when she was on the street, jumping in when she was perfectly fine.</i></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff4d">“I have an interest in the girl, that much I will readily admit, but an obsession? I know I am not the only person here that has tried to take another person's apprentice as their own. Just because the practice has waned a bit in recent years doesn’t change the fact that it is was common thing to do. And when that apprentice was taken as part of a job he shouldn’t have been apart of in the first place, a job that was supposed to be mine, you can see where a little bit of fascination with the girl can come from.”</span><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ffff4d">If they are getting complaints about me, I wonder if they know that I was the last person to have Castellis do a job...</span></i>