Chapter 58. The Darkness
CYRAN
“How are you feeling?”
Saelyna has a smile on her face, but it does not disguise the lines under her eyes. Still playing the elder one.
“I feel tired. We both do,” I say.
She waves a hand and sits next to me on the bed. “I could do with a nap, to be honest,” she whispers.
“Not with those cursed beasts still roving the area,” I tell her.
Just minutes ago, Argell took Farden, Gylen, and Charlin with him to scout the village and the forests.
“Are you worried for Gylen?” she asks, the barest hint of a smile perched on her lips.
I fight the heat building in my cheeks. “Don’t be absurd,” I scoff, “It’s nothing.”
“Oh?”
“It’s a fling…more or less.”
I’m not even sure what it is. Relationships have never been my thing; too much to commit, to give, to lose. With Gylen, though, it’s kind of different. I’m just not ready to admit it yet.
I turn my attention back to Veesa and Constance. I recognize her now as t
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