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MELISSA WAS too angry to want breakfast, so I left her in her room, making a mental note to ask Eirani to bring her something to eat later.
In the living room, most of the guests in my apartment sat around a big table where the usual wide choice of dishes was spread out.
When I first moved into the apartment, when it still belonged to Renkati, I had wondered what need I’d have for that huge table. Today, we had two tables of similar size put together.
Asha Domiri and his guards had taken up seats on the far end, then there was an empty seat and then the first of Ezhya’s guards. The woman Natanu sat in the middle of that group, which stretched around the other side of the table. No one spoke.
Right. We had a problem here.
I crossed the room and boldly sat in the empty seat between t
