Chapter 27 Gwrlain
27 GWRLAIN “Why did you lie to Melokai Ramya?” Robya said, wringing her hands. So, here it was. After months of conversations, the shy scholar had finally plucked up the courage to ask. Gwrlain sighed. They’d been talking about the moon and stars. Her voice had been calm and her breathing relaxed. But now, his senses told him that she chewed at the side of her mouth and held her breath. She sat wrapped in a cloak on her makeshift bed outside the cave entrance and in front of a small fire. She liked to sleep out of the cave on clear, warmer nights, to set up her little bed and write her journals, full of that day’s discoveries. One of Fin’s warriors was stationed inside the cave, a little way off to give the scholar some privacy. Fin had sent a clevercat messenger back to Riaow, bu
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