Angel's eyebrows rose as the boy said he lived far away. Wow, and his parents let him go that far? That was so cool! His parents let him wander, but he knew his dad would object to him going farther than a half a day's worth of travel away. It just wasn't smart, the King told him, because if someone got their paws on him they could use his safety against Imperium. To combat this his dad was teaching him to defend himself and one day when he was confident in Angel and his siblings' abilities, he would let his kids go wherever they wanted.
He lived by an ocean. Angel didn't even know what an ocean was -that's how far away Psalm lived. The young Imperialis was in awe of this petite boy. He'd traveled far and he'd traveled fearlessly. Angel wanted to be like that. "Nope, I haven't...what's an ocean?" The only bodies of water the Prince was familiar with were freshwater. Rivers, streams, ponds and puddles were all he knew about standing water. He'd never seen so much as a lake before, so the idea of a giant, seemingly endless body of undrinkable water never crossed his mind. He assumed an ocean was like, a giant hill or barn or something, because those were the biggest landmarks he knew.
