Chapter 3
The healers had told Gavi that he needed to walk every day as he healed from the enemy sword wound that had cut into his chest and shoulder and nearly killed him, so he walked for miles and worked in the garden. Those were the only two things he did these days, and he was growing bored out of his mind. He was anxious to get back to seeker work.
Spending his days between the kitchen gardens and his room wasn’t helping him. Things weren’t the same anymore. He couldn’t tell if the injury had changed him, or something else. He felt newly aware of his difference. The space Gavi occupied in the world was not the same as the one his brother lived and breathed in, and it made Gavi edgy and confused. He knew Jabari wondered what was wrong with him. Gavi wished he knew.
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