SeraI heard Lyra before I even reached the dining room doors."—and I'm telling you, he was completely mortified. Just standing there covered in wine with—"Her voice cut off the second I walked in."Sera!" She was up and out of her chair before I'd taken two steps, practically running around the table. "You're awake, I was starting to think you were going to sleep all day—""Lyra, let her breathe," my mother said, but she was smiling.Lyra grabbed my arm anyway, pulling me toward the empty chair across from where she'd been sitting. "Come on, sit, you have to eat. Mom made them put out all your favorites, even though Cook said it was too much trouble—""I can walk by myself.""I know, but you're slow." She practically shoved me into the chair and dropped back into her own. "Anyway, as I was saying before Sera finally decided to join us, Lord Brennan was standing there dripping with wine and—"I glanced at my father. He'd looked up when I walked in, his eyes tracking me across the ro
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