"Lea? As in the Leanansidhe?" Because everyone wanted to be trained by Winter Court nobility. "Dios, Molly." He needed a moment or two to absorb that. If Winter Court was taking an interest in Molly, what was she to them? "They aren't working through intermediaries? It wouldn't be the first time they'd done something like that."

He was cautious, who could blame him. There was a reason he'd stayed alive longer than most of the other apprentices who became wizards at the same time as him. He was a survivor.