Chapter 19, Zorra Villa:
“I don’t want to go. What if something happens while I’m gone?” Della watched Zorra with pleading eyes. It had been many years since Zorra had seen tears well in her younger sister’s eyes. She’d missed how quickly Della had grown over the past few months. Times like these, she forgot she was technically a child, playing at being an adult. “What if he returns and can’t find me?” That was the crux of her argument: she missed her Black Knight, Felspar, and the separation had become too painful for her.
Zorra found it all rather strange. The man was old enough to be her father, possibly grandfather, yet she’d latched on to him greater than most women do a lover. The pain of the separation rode heavy on her shoulders.
Della blurted out in anger, “If it was Joti or Ol
