Chapter 11
KOTORI STOOD AT his window for a long time.
He thought very seriously about jumping, but he was too much of a coward. It would hurt falling down on the stones of the courtyard, in that brief moment before he died. What if he regretted his decision at that moment? If he died in his current disgrace, he would not have his name inscribed on the wall of the king’s servants, and his mother, his poor mother, would die in shame.
So he just stood there and thought about jumping, while the sun sank lower on the horizon and turned the city golden. The view was achingly pretty. He loved Kadrish with all his heart. Right now, it was not loving him back.
Someone knocked on the door.
Kotori gasped.
It would be the king’s guard, coming to get him to be scolded by the king. For a few hear
