In any normal circumstances, I would have turned around and started to make my way back to the palace—after all, what point was there in continuing to stand here? Nothing. It would have been much better for me to go back and speak to my father, to tell him everything that had happened in the hall. Even though I knew that Elder Xara would be bound to remain at the castle for an indefinite amount of time, I also knew that she would respect the privacy of everything that had happened in the hall, and that she would say anything to anyone.
“Anoa… I have so many questions. So many things that I still don’t understand, but I also know that you’re not going to be able to help me understand any of them either.”
There was something in his voice, in the air, in everything that was
