“I apologize for the upset this has caused.” She folds her hands in front of her, scanning her people. Her gaze lands on me. I cannot meet it. “Rest assured that I will get to the bottom of King Alden’s implications and keep this violence from reaching you to the best of my ability.”More murmurs. S
Xandra“Oh,” Finn half-gasps.Things have been tense between us since he learned just how much time I’m supposed to be spending in bed, nearly two weeks ago now, but I still take his hand. “You will get used to the feeling, I promise.”He screws up his face as Vedran dances fingers through the air.
“Ready to get out of your own way?” he asks. “I’m more than happy to hit you again, if not.”Xandra’s words echo through my mind. I want this—I want her. And that, apparently, means enduring Elian’s jibes.“What, then?” I spit. “What pearl of insight do you have for me?”“That the Goddess doesn’t ca
“Where are you?” I ask Elian through the mind-link. The troubles everyone has been having with them don’t seem to affect us, probably because Dun’s Crossing isn’t at war with itself.“The ring,” he replies.I arrive at what passes as a training ground here—a flat ring of dirt, outside the main town,
FinnI grunt as I lift one of the last crates of supplies off the back of the cart at the edge of Tarrin. Something inside shifts heavily against my chest.“I would offer to help,” the driver says, “but there’s a reason I only do the smuggling.” She raises her arms, displaying how thin they are.I s
One of the toddlers shrieks at the top of their lungs, and the girl drops the soap in the dirt.I’m not worrying about questions like that anymore.I curl water out of the air and around the soap, washing it clean before the girl can even scoop it off the ground. She and Sanja both stare at me, open