Chapter Fifteen

He didn't have any noticeable reaction. "Why do you want to know?"

I shrugged. "Curiosity. I mean, I don't even know how old you are. I want to know what you were like before you were changed too."

He looked at me for a minute and then said, "Okay." He started twirling my hair again. "I wasn't very different before I was changed. At least, I don't think so, personality wise. Most of the changes came with changes in society. For example, women were considered inferior up till very recently. Obviously, I don't think that way anymore."

"Better not," I grumbled.

"You were the one who wanted to know," he said. "Would you like me to stop?"

"No, keep going," I said.

"It was 1605 when I was changed, two days after my eighteenth birthday. My father was a baron, so we were fairly wealthy. He died when I was fourteen. My mother died three years after, and my uncle took in my brothers and me. My uncle loved money; he was much richer than my parents had been. I think he got a lot of his money ille