Because King Detry is already leaning toward having me put down. I understood Hawk’s meaning.
He wasn’t pushing me so hard because he was an ass. He was pushing me because he didn’t want to have to kill me.
Or any of the others. I was shocked at the revelation.
“You always had my attention. From the moment I realized how clever a mind you were hiding behind the fumbling practices. You lack confidence but what you miss in that you have in spades of strength.”
I was searching for his shadow in the blackness. Peering around, as I wondered.
“Haven’t you figured it out yet, Mary Mage?”
“What?”
“What is so obvious I have to work every moment to hide it.”
“What?” I was blinking into the night dark chamber.
His voice seemed to be moving around rapidly and I was having
