Moon Touched
My humiliation had become their safety valve.
“Teams are set,” Nathan said, pencil scribbling while he could still keep it in his own hand. “Northern patrol: Dylan, Sera, Jon. Western cut: Brill, Yarrow…” His voice carried on, the litany of names like rosary beads. When he reached the end, quiet retook the room, and we all listened to the oddest sound: my breathing. Ducks breathe with a faint whistle, a thread of air through a small reed. It’s not an impressive sound for a king to make. The more I hated it, the louder it seemed.
Lorn broke the quiet first. “Tristan,” he said, .“You have chosen certainty as a spear. That can be noble on the field. In the house, among the living, it kills thin