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“You died in the labyrinth. She went berserk. Did something to the gobbelins where they just... froze solid. Then she smashed them like ice cubes. And disappeared. The mist took you both, right before it came and took the rest of us out of the labyrinth and back to the palace. Gobbelins were never part of the plan,” he added, looking pissed at the fact that Merden had blamed the whole thing on the mist “changing its mind” about the labyrinth.
I shook my head, cursing under my breath. It was a load of shit, that was for sure.
I remembered my time in the mist well enough. It matched up with Blaise’s description, where we’d both lived through some nice childhood memories before being dumped back out into the real world.
None of that would explain how Kana was acting now.
“Why wasn’t Kana delivered straight to the banquet hall like I was then? And why the fuck is she acting so weird and calling herself Khione all of a sudden?”
“Because I am Khione,” Kana answered, stepping out of the closet and looking at me calmly from those weird icy eyes.
She was dressed in an outfit I’d never seen before, the pale blue and white skirt of a fancy noblewoman’s dress billowing out from her waist, paired with a smooth black leather vest like a corset, and the same rugged leather boots she’d been wearing before.
A wicked black whip coiled at her waist like a snake, and knives gleamed in their sheaths all over the vest.
“You look...” I began, at a loss for words.
“Amazing,” Luca finished, and she sort of smiled at him, looking like her facial muscles were thawing from the cold.
“I was going to say like a warrior princess,” I said, recovering. She really did look amazing, and the smile softened as she wore it longer.
“I’ve forgotten... things. But I remember, too. I remember you told me not to kiss you, but now... we kiss, don’t we?” she asked, stepping toward.
I chuckled, even though I was worried about her.
“We do kiss. And I like it very much,” I added, pulling her gently toward me. She leaned in and kissed me like someone who’d never tried it before, the experience just as stiff as the smile. I slid my hand across her jaw and into her hair, my lips parting hers as my tongue slid across her bottom lip.
She opened for me, her hands wrapping my biceps as I nibbled on her bottom lip, exploring her mouth with my tongue and teaching her what we both liked again.
She moaned, and her fangs drew blood from my lip. I nipped at her lips, surprised at how cold her blood was. The taste was the same, but the texture was icy, like it was halfway frozen.
She broke away from me and turned to Luca. “And I remember we were friends, then enemies. Now... more than friends?”
He smiled, but it was a little pained until she moved between his legs and leaned in for a kiss. The wolf wrapped his arms around her, gathering her tightly against him as he kissed her deeply.
I looked away, feeling almost like it was a private moment.
Something was going on with the princess that we needed to figure out, but there were other big things on the horizon, too.
Things that unfortunately couldn’t wait for her to remember what she liked in bed or that she hated wearing big skirts.
“Do you remember the gobbelins?” I asked when they broke apart.
Her face hardened. “I will kill them all.”
“The mist forced Merden to end the Trial early because of them. It’s still a week and a half to full moon,” Luca said.
“They’re looking for me.” Kana’s voice was flat and matter of fact.
“They’re going to destroy the city,” I said, my voice bitter with hatred for Merden and how she’d created such a mess in Saori Sang.
Kana stood up ramrod straight, her pale eyes flashing as her hand gripped the whip handle. “I’m going to save the city. Cherise told me I have to save the city.”
“Cherise... like Valda’s mother?” Luca asked slowly, and I frowned. I didn’t remember all the royal names, but that one did sound familiar. The wolf glanced at me. “She’s the last queen who called the Trials.”
Kana nodded. “She knows that I’m Khione. She told me to save the city. I thought it was from Merden.”
“But it’s from the gobbelins,” I guessed, and Kana nodded again, her eyebrows drawing down in something sort of like a glare. I couldn’t honestly tell if she was getting back to normal.
