Chapter 73

“That girl… I’ve sent for the best medicine men in the twelve kingdoms to treat her, but none of them got her out of the protective shell she built around herself—her mother. I…” he paused and closed his eyes. “None of us did that. Instead, she went deeper into her own head, and she was losing it slowly. It was killing her mother, but I told her it was time to let Remeta go. She was trying to, but it was hard for her.”

Danika listened as he spoke. She searched her mind and realised that this was the first time he was talking to her. Really talking to her. Not commands. Not hateful, short words. Not angry remarks. He was truly talking to her.

The king squeezed his garment, his brows knitted in thought. “The last time I saw little Remeta, she had cut herself open with broken glass from the cup her mother used to bring water for her. She would have killed herself that day if I hadn’t had the two maids I went with and her mother to restrain her.” 

Danika