[she tilts her head and looks at him almost exactly as her omen did, and then she clasps his hand briefly but confidently.]

I spoke with him earlier. It's certainly interesting that Paul would choose to study with him.

[she can't tell if he reminds her of petyr or if she's simply so...angry that any man of that age being solicitously friendly puts her in mind of petyr and makes her inclined to dislike him. tyrion was that age too, but at least he had the grace to be unhappy with their arrangement, even if he stood up to his father too late. and if he is like petyr, then she thinks he must be like the people that hurt paul, and she thought paul was cleverer than she had been, but what if he's only being alayne, in his own way, because he's afraid, and the worst ones always live? but what if she's wrong entirely, and he's simply a friendly man from a culture whose magic makes her uncomfortable because of the stories she'd always heard as a child?

regardless she doesn't like the necromancy, even if the bones are mostly from his home (mostly is probably not good enough). she looks back at the ominous shelf.]

And live here, in this place, with this magic.