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Her face was twisted with worry.
“I’m fine,” I told her.
It took her a while for her tense body to relax. She stopped struggling against the chains.
I turned away from her. I had to tell someone to go and check up on the group coming from the East. They were monster folk, I could sense them now.
“You asked me if I would have been better off if you hadn’t left me,” I said, turning away from her to leave the tent as I did. “I think I would. But I wouldn’t change the life I had, knowing where it brought me. If that helps you...”
It does not, I heard her thought in response, but I pretended not to hear her as I left her alone in the tent.
Chapter 16: Feremir
Iplaced my hands on the divination ball and shut my eyes. The darkness welcomed me like an old friend, but there was no meaning in it.
Staring at the moonstone ball and trying to have visions was boring. I was accustomed to prophecies rushing over me, rather than going out to look for them. But Igraine thought there was something to be seen; something that I had missed before.
I had to try.
I did not know if I was the one who was supposed to see the rest of the prophecy. It was more likely for the queen’s rather experienced diviners to see it before me, considering they had been working toward it for longer than I had. Sometimes, connections between diviners to the subject matter of a prophecy were helpful, but my connection to the Queen of Light was weak at best compared to her other diviners. But if luck was going to be on our side, it would not hurt to try and help it.
The night grew older as silence loomed over the moonstone. Sleep was threatening to take over. I straightened on the bed and opened my eyes wide. The divination ball looked empty. The moonspark that neatly lined the edges of the blue stone did not move at all.
No light came in from the window on my left. The sun was down and there were no moons tonight. The longer I tried to see the path of the figure in the dark from my prophecy, the heavier my eyelids felt.
A knock at the door saved me from the increasing hopelessness that was slowly taking over this experiment. I grabbed the ball and hid it underneath my pillow before I responded.
“Yes?” I tried to sound sleepy.
The door opened wide. I prepared myself to look annoyed that anyone would come in without being invited but when Aislinn entered, I couldn’t help my smile.
“Can I come in?” she asked coyly.
“Of course,” I replied.
She was taking a risk by coming here at night. Surely, no one would think we were both spies of the resistance simply because they saw us together in my room at night, but the other things they could suppose would not be any better.
“Are you okay?” I asked. “Did something happen at the...”
She placed a finger on her lips. It was a reminder to keep our thoughts private. I was not supposed to think about the resistance.
