She had lied to them. She didn’t know it until she was forced to say it aloud, and the feeling was so strange she doubted it had gone unnoticed. Yes, Adam’s actions were romantic, irrational, unjustifiable. And yet, when forced to comment, Anax had spoken a lie. She did not know whether she would have done the same thing had she been up in the watchtower, she just knew Adam wasn’t wrong to have done it. She tried to swallow back this new and dangerous knowledge
