The Luminary's words bothered Hendrik. Why would the boy even bring that up or say such things to him? Had he done something wrong? And what was this whole thing about being a friend?

Did Eleven feel that they were friends? When had that happened? So of course he had to ask the obvious because slow knightly minds are slow.

"So you consider me a friend as well as a companion, correct?" The word 'friend' seemed to be an odd taste to his tongue because the only other person he'd had as a friend was Jasper and he knew how that turned out.