Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27550231-20160726000337/@comment-28358106-20160820033356

Aurum hesitates momentarily. She doesn't meet Jorge's gaze as she continues pulling off her armor.

"Oh...well...Aegis had made the comment earlier that my lessons were an excuse for us to be..." She pauses, almost stumbling over her own words. "...For us to be closer.  She seems to believe that we are, um, in a prelude to, um, courting." She puts her breastplate down, busying herself. "I told her, of course, that it was complete nonsense, and that she shouldn't, um, consider such things.  I told her that it was, um, uncouth to spread rumors such as that.  She doesn't listen, of course.  Goodness, if I only knew she had been spying on us!  Such rudeness!  I love her so much, but she can be quite..."

She turns and sees Jorge still staring. She meets his gaze nervously. "I...That is the truth of it, Lording.  Just Aegis and her incorrigible behaviour."

Jorge doesn't move. Aurum's eyes don't leave his, but they are wide with anxiety. "That is the truth of it, Lording!  I...I am incapable of lying.   I thought Father told you that.  I cannot lie.  If asked a question, I must tell the truth as I know it.  Because I am..."

She still looks him in the eye, but her voice becomes quieter. "...Because I am a Golem."