Chapter 269

Sienna

I found her alone near the garden wall, her hands stained with soil as she reburied some of the broken herbs from the chaos last week. The sun dipped low behind her, casting a golden halo around her figure.

She didn’t look up when I approached, maybe she heard me, maybe she didn’t. But I stepped forward anyway, slowly. I had to admit though, the two of us were not fighting anymore. There was a gap between us that I did not like. It was one that I could not explain, and I knew that we needed to clear that up. I needed to clear it out.

“I didn’t know you gardened,” I said quietly. “For as long as I’ve known you, you were never one to enter the kitchen. Let alone the garden.”

Lysandra glanced at me, then back to the soil, her voice soft. “I didn’t. Not before. But these roots were torn apart because of the war. Someone has to put them back in place. And the kitchen and garden and two completely different places, Sienna.”

I swallowed. “Is that