Book 16: One Ending and One Beginning

Blake

“Will I ever see her again?”

Lexa moves with me through the dark, our bodies falling into the shadow of manor houses that sprawl throughout the neighborhoods resting against the palace walls. The layout of this city is so similar to Moonrise that I’ve found it more than disorienting sometimes, like whatever ancestor of the sitting king stole the design from the Firestone Queens, trying to recreate the kingdom they forced to ash.

“Chessie?”

She gives a tight nod, refusing to meet my eyes. I know what she’s asking–for me to look into a future that’s so unstable and shifting with every second that passes. I can only give her the truth I know in my heart. “Silas loves her, but he’d let her go. When this is over, when I’m able to get you home, Chessie can decide if she’s staying with him or going back to Eastonia,