Chapter 168

Christof curled against my back, warming where I had been sitting on the floor. The others did not totally understand how I felt, Christof understood and had no anger about it. In the back of his mind he still held the same opinion, free creatures should be left free. Strength was not a reason to dominate someone else completely.

The blankets were pulled up and over me and I fell back to sleep.

We were in a classroom again and I sighed. This dream just wouldn’t go away. It was probably because Nu-reeh had said I should be able to read. That comment had really stuck with me. On this world I was strikingly uneducated.

There was a figure on the blackboard in front of me. I recognized it at the symbol for the compound I had come from. It was the only symbol in their language I recognized.

“No, it isn’t,” Master Kein said from my side.

A new symbol appeared on the board and it looked familiar. It was on the outside of the shop they bought my ornamentation in