"Is it terrible that I don't know?" Pulling her eyes away from the green-glow of the tank and the surrounding stone wall, the little blonde smiled impishly up at him. Passing thought or not, Halle had been considering his question. There was a larger idea at work there, something that would lead her to existential questions about whether or not she herself was caging something that had no business being caged – luckily, she broke free of the train of thought long before then.

Honestly, she'd asked herself the same sort of question. Orion had this quiet sort of wisdom, and he had been so many places, and seemed to know so much more than she did. It was a wonder to her that she didn't irritate him right to death. "I just wanted to go somewhere – with you."