Sage Pov
I was fairly surprised by how many ponds there were scattered throughout the forest. I had been worried we’d lose our water source once we left the ravine, but it didn’t take long before we stopped at another pond, and then another one. Twenty-five days have passed since I met him, that means thirty-one days left. I started counting everything religiously, and I never was one to care about dates like that. If I was, I’d have been counting down the days to my inauguration, which I was supposed to have when I turned twenty-two, but my father had started talking about feeling like I was ready as soon as I was married. Married to whatever woman my mother had been planning for me. Of course, they wouldn’t force a marriage on me, but what was the point of declining? At this point in my
