Him and Tybalt arguing. Tybalt wanted them to take me with them so that I could stay with them until Cethin was of age.” “Of age? For what?” Eliza asked. “I was brought here to be his Guardian.” Eliza tensed. “You were forced to become his Guardian?” She remembered Tybalt speaking of the Guardian Bond at dinner one night in Aimonway. He’d said it wasn’t a burden, and that no one selected as a Guardian was against it. “I eventually chose it on my own, but not when they wanted me to. I was supposed to become bonded to him when his power was awakened. I refused. For decades. Centuries.
