Helio’s POV
I was finally free of the infirmary. Sure, I wasn’t at full strength yet, but I wasn’t an invalid like everyone seemed to think I was. The healer, Kalinda, and even Cindra wanted me to take it slow.
It wasn’t going to happen. A month wasn’t a long time, and we’d already burned through about a week of it. Rest would have to wait. The kingdom and Queen Araceli’s ultimatum could not.
I already had a list of tasks I needed to get done as quickly as possible. Making my father step down and putting an end to the protests-turned-riots were at the top of the list and the first steps toward trying to keep the peace with Winter Harvest.
But all of that would have to wait. Right now, I had a far more personal mission—Titus. His spell and everything else I’d learned from Asha’s diaries
