MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Eighty three — Sixty Four
Nobody slept that night.
Not properly.
They sat at the table.
The big one.
The one that had started with three people and had kept growing.
Mara at the center.
Caius on her left.
Zane on her right.
Edmund across from her.
Davan beside Edmund.
Lena at the end.
Corvin.
Rhen.
Aldric.
Petra.
Vael.
The painting on the table between all of them.
The sixty fourth territory in the corner.
Small.
Lit.
Connected.
Real.
Mara looked at Vael.
"Tell me you know what this is," she said.
Vael looked at the painting.
She had been looking at it since they came in.
The specific way she looked at things she recognized.
Old and careful and weighted.
"Yes," she said quietly.
The table waited.
"There were sixty four territor
