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But I knew it was not all true.
Orla was here. She was unconscious but she lived.
I needed to be brave now. Courage was like a sheet of water falling off the edge of a waterfall. It would be cold, but it would protect me from the hellfire outside that was Lady Queill.
“No,” I said.
The images went away as quickly as they had come. I had done it. I had succeeded in resisting Queill’s mind magic.
I got up.
There were only a few paces between us.
I would stop her.
She couldn’t touch Orla.
Not when I was here to protect her.
“Hold her,” Lady Queill said calmly.
I looked over my shoulder to see four guards enter the corridor we were in. I made a move to get away to reach Orla before they could catch me, but the stone moved underneath me again, making me stagger.
Falling, I tried to reach the soldiers using my magic, but Lady Queill blocked me from them with a single thought sent our way.
She was in my mind. She knew everything I did, before I did them.
“You cannot stop this, princess,” she said, her lips cornering with a vicious smile. “It’s over. And I have other places to be.”
I screamed as the soldiers grabbed my arms and stopped me before I could attack Lady Queill.
Chapter 24: Feremir
As I rushed to the great hall, I was trying not to think.
The smells of food and sounds of talking reached me before I turned the last corner. But I wasn’t hungry.
I stepped into the great hall, my eyes searching the crowd.
I found her at the very end of the hall, with a plate of food in front of her that seemed long forgotten. Her face was buried in a book, and her eyes were so intensely locked on it that she didn’t notice me even as I was standing right beside her.
