It had been a while since Khal recalled these memories, much less told someone else. He did not know why telling Ayen these things felt easier.
Perhaps because Khal had become willing to let Ayen enter their world and not just superficially. It came as a surprise at first, the reason Khal was too conflicted.
"I didn't know where he was. It was like he vanished from existence."
Khal still found it difficult to recall what happened. How everything suddenly changed, and it left him deeply unprepared. Even to this day, Khal remained clueless about what happened in those years that Devion disappeared.
Where did he go or stay for a couple of years? Khal only knew he definitely suffered, and so he did not have the heart to let Devion remember those things out of his own curiosity.
"Then he returned like a completely different person."
Khal stared at Devion's sleeping face, wanting to reach out but was unable to do so. He could only stare at him like this.
