It became like hearing the sea at a distance. Blood thrummed so hard in her ears it turned into as though the drums that had signaled her entry to Heart had taken up again.
Not Set, became all she should think. Anyone but Set.
The dread in her blossomed into outrage, its vines scrabbling at her guts and mountain climbing into her throat, as though trying to get away via her mouth. Some part of her registered that if she allowed it out, it might come as tears.
So she choked on it, bit and swallowed it back down. Crushed the life from it until it become not anything greater than a blackened pit.
How should he do this to me?
Lu seemed to the emperor with beseeching eyes, however her father became nevertheless staring at out on the cheering crowd. And then Lu noticed her mother and sister
