Chapter 21888, England
The box was wrapped in gold and tied with a satin ribbon.
Saalik stared at it and then squinted at Elizabeth. “This is for me?”
“Why so suspicious?” She was smiling, her snow-white hair pulled into a loose bun.
“Because I know you.” That made Elizabeth laugh, as it was meant to.
“Open it. We’re celebrating.”
“Celebrating?” Saalik touched the box, then pulled his hand away, hesitant. “I take it you plan to tell me what you’ve been up to?”
“Yes.” Since her fall, Elizabeth had been spending more and more time in and out of odd little libraries and traveling to visit mystics and wise men. Her hip was healed but she’d decided she was perhaps too old for riding, and her focus had become quite singular. “I know how to set you free.”
“You’ve been…”
“Yes. I didn’t wa
