Chapter Forty-FiveSen had watched Mizar's happy introduction to Nyla with keen interest. Though his master had hidden it well, he knew Mizar's anticipation at meeting his Ixtrayu relatives beat powerfully within his chest. Ever since that fateful moment at Deegan's house when Vaxi laid bare the truth behind Mizar's—and Sen's—true origins, Sen now knew, despite his initial fears, that making the journey to this distant plateau was necessary, for both their sakes.
It should not have surprised Sen as much as it did when Rahne was revealed as Kelia's son; after all, there were probably as many sons of Ixtrayu mothers littered all over Agrus as there were in Darad. Boys—men—just like him, who had been returned to their fathers with no memory of the woman who carried them in her womb. Some of t
