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Wishing to not prolong our interaction, I made haste, stepping around him to continue down the hallway.
“As was mine, my apologies. I’ll be ready… Soon. Ish.”
If I was going to do this, I needed to do it quick.
“Irae Kalini?”
Steeling myself, I turned.
What had the Queen suspected of you?
Miroslav studied me intently as if searching for something, his piercing silvery eyes glittering like diamonds. His expression, for once, held no smugness. It only made it all the more alarming. His brow tensed briefly before a corner of his mouth lifted, and he took a step toward me.
“Join me. By the lake.”
“I would really rather not.”
He chuckled. “It would be in your best interest.”
Unease spiked within me, making my chest tighten. The last thing I needed was some doomed prediction. At my hesitation, he extended his large, upturned palm. After staring at it briefly as though it were a venomous thing, I placed my hand in his, allowing him tofoldus. Darkness consumed us. The deeply alarming sensation of space and matter collapsing entirely filled… what remained of me. For a fleeting moment, it seemed we’d ceased to exist. Before my heart completed a singular beat, however, that darkness was replaced by the light of day and the lake at the rear of the sprawling palace gardens. His ability tofoldspace in such a way that enabled him to jump in and out of various locales in the blink of an eye - was unlike any other I had ever seen. There was seemingly no limit to the distance or the number of people who he could take with him.
Such is the power of anOrisha.
A shield rose around us, silvery and iridescent, and I couldn’t help but momentarily admire it even as my words broke free.
“Am I going to die?”
Please say yes,a scornful voice whispered.
Miroslav brows lifted, yet still somehow managed to look bored.
“Aren’t we all?”
I took a deep breath to muster patience just as Miroslav, out of thin air, withdrew a small vile that held a shimmering translucent liquid.
“Take this before you attempt to complete your assignment.”
My brow furrowed with suspicion.
“What is it, and why?”
His lips curved downwards as though in apology.
“… I cannot say.”
“And you expect me to trust you… And just… Imbibe this mystery liquid.”
Something in his gaze seemed to search mine, a sudden openness and… concern on his face that I found far more unsettling than anything else. Never before had I seen him without his features trained in equal parts detachment and amusement, as though everything was merely a form of entertainment.
“I know you don’t trust me…”
Distrust is putting it mildly.
I hadn’t been one for pleasantries or false reassurances since I’d left the Erosyan Temple, and this male certainly wouldn’t be the one to change that. My mouth pressed into a hard line.
“And I understand why… If I swear it in blood that it will do you no harm, will you promise to consider taking it?”
“And you can’t tell me what it is?”
