Eridanys was either so sure of himself that he felt completely safe closing his eyes and drifting off right there, naked, defenseless, in the home of someone whom he had no reason to trust—or, Alba realized as he picked out faint dark circles beneath the man’s eyes, perhaps he was simply as exhausted as Alba was. He’d mentioned traps set around the harbor, after all. He’d mentioned looking for his missing kin, which Alba knew from his own experience to be draining. Physically, emotionally, mentally. Alba pressed his lips together, exhaling a puff of breath to knock a clump of hair from his
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