The curse between us
It was one of the reasons I kept him close and also, occasionally, one of the reasons I found him exhausting.
I stopped walking.
He stopped too, looking at me, waiting.
"Have you noticed something?" I said.
He frowned slightly.
"What?"
"The ground," I said. "That sound it makes. That deep, low vibration that runs through the floor of the east wing every few days."
I looked at him.
"It hasn't happened once since she arrived this morning."
Riven was quiet for a second.
"So?" he said, but his voice had lost some of its certainty.
"So the stories are true," I said. "The curse was never one-sided. It was never just something the Vales carried. We carry our half of it too, and we need them to surv
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