Kaden nodded stiffly to answer the question but his mind was on the dorm room that felt certain. He wasn't looking at Merlin and his hands were tight around the edge of the bench and his mind was trying to wrestle with the concept that he was gonna live long enough to get to college.
College was years away.
That meant Merlin saw a future where it was years before Ares of Apollo found him again.
Kaden didn't know what to do about that.
"Wanted to be a vet," he told Merlin in the quietest voice, on par with that distant owl. "But that was before. Don't even know anymore."