I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
"That's what you're saying. That woman died because someone mistook her for me."
"She was standing where you would have been standing," Kael said quietly, still watching the street. "If you had not stopped to argue with me on the bridge. If you had walked your usual route to the market this morning instead."
Elara's stomach turned over. She thought of the dark haired woman lying in the square, a stranger whose face she did not recognize, whose life had ended because of a mistake, because a bolt meant for someone else had found her chest instead.
"I don't understand," she said, her voice cracking. "Why would anyone want to kill me? I'm nobody. I pour ale at a tavern. I have no family, no titl