That....was actually a really good question. Why did he want to go with her? Alphen had not given it any thought and just blurted the desire to do so as if it was perfectly natural. It WAS perfectly natural in his head.

"I don't really know. Yeah my friends are here and they'll always be here. Just...can't help but feel if I watch you walk away, I might never see you again. " Honestly that was just his conclusion from the mere atmosphere around her. He'd never learned to lie beyond white lies so his thoughts came out unfiltered and they trampled all over Shionne's defenses like a warband of hungry zeugels.