CHAPTER 13
Najud took his seat in the study room of the library again on the following night. Penrys hadn’t come, the night before, and he’d dozed off in his comfortable chair before finally giving up after midnight. Three nights in a row I haven’t talked with her—that’s too long.
Vylkar had shrugged off her non-appearance this morning. “A hundred things could have prevented her coming for one night,” he’d said, and it was true. And it was his own fault he’d been absent the two nights previous himself.
We’ve been too careless with this line of communication, leaving her to do all the work and swapping the three of us around at our convenience. We have to think of a better way, or maybe I should just move out now and join her.
Munraz could stay with Vylkar for a while, until they were a
