Chapter Four: DeparturesSince becoming High King, the most difficult thing Dare faced was the realisation that, as time passed, he would be saying goodbye to more and more of his friends.
The most recent of these farewells were not a farewells at all but the loss of Tully Furnsby in the Frozen Mountains, and to a lesser extent, his wife Keira. Dare still carried the guilt of their tragic ends, wishing on more than one occasion he'd never found their small house in the Green. Their act of kindness in sheltering him had only brought them disaster.
The others in his circle would leave under better circumstances but, still, their departures stung. Kyou would eventually return home to Iridia once the fortifications to Sandrine were complete. While Celene and Ronen still spent the summer month
