“Would it torture you to speak plainly for once?” He reached out and placed a hand against the frame of the bookshelf at her back. “Something you need to understand if our partnership is going to work—we are on the same side. I want you to be successful more than you do, I promise. You found the Whispering Gate and you made that room in the secret passage appear just fine. That’s what I mean when I say ‘dig deeper.’ Find things I haven’t looked through a million times already. Look beyond the books, the obvious.”
the way how he said "i promise" rlly just did it for me
