The SoulBorn Queen
Every time I looked toward a horizon or wondered if I should just walk and walk and never look back, I’d hear that promise I made eleven years ago as she wasted away on her deathbed.
Stay together and look after them. I’d agreed, too young to ask why she hadn’t begged my elder sisters, or my father. But I’d sworn it to her, and then she’d died, and in our miserable human world —shielded only by the promise made by the High Wiz five centuries ago—in our world where we’d forgotten the names of our gods, a promise was law; a promise was currency; a promise was your bond.
There were times when I hated her for asking that vow of me. Perhaps, delirious with fever, she hadn’t even known what she wa