“You should—” “Stop talking to boys,” I interrupted. “Yeah. We’ve had this talk before. It’s irrational. I can’t avoid all males.” “Just the sols.” He frowned. “And the dwellers. And the gods.” “So just … all males, then?” I arched a brow at him. He nodded, once, short and sharp—as though we had just figured out our differences and come to a mutual agreement,

