You think so? Even if there's a reason, it's so important.

[ But it's nice of him... she can't help but smile. She tears her last bits of muffin absentmindedly between her fingers as she weighs how to phrase it. ]

It's nothing much. People in Vasilios don't have things like... um, cultivation. So my parents wanted to keep me close until I was old enough to hide my ability.