Setting up a meeting
[SYRUS’ POV] It wasn’t hard to catch up to speed on their conversation. I'd caught some of it already from shamelessly eavesdropping. When I sat down at the rounded meeting table, Helena gritted her teeth. “You’re aware of the Kings of the Seas, right?” Bel asked me. I nodded. As much as I don’t like gatherings, a gathering of the Sea Kings is exciting. They’re so flashy and dramatic it’s hard not to have fun in their presence. If we wanted safe and, more than anything, easy passage to the Black Sands land, we would need their cooperation. There was no way to access the island without traveling on the world’s most dangerous ocean. “Why would Syrus know anything about the Kings of the Seas or whatever? Their grades were worse than mine,” Helena complained. I was amused at how she rea
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