Dahlia makes her way out of Xatherin's cave, her insides deader than dust. It had been the right thing to do, to come here and find the answers that she needed but if she had a chance of rewinding back time to when she had been foolish and oblivious and she had thought that the lady fate had finally smiled down on her, she would go back in a heartbeat.
The struggle is going to be hiding her feelings and her thoughts from Zion and that is going to be impossibly hard. Even now, his concern for her batters at her closed mind, for that was the first thing she had done when she had come out of her reverie. She cannot let him feel her hopelessness and devastation. He would know and he would try to stop her from doing what must be done. This time, not even Zion would understand why it has to en
