AMARIS’S POV
I barely realized I'd done it. Desperation yanked the words from my mouth before I could think twice.
Nyoka's disturbing gaze snapped onto me, her glowing eyes locking onto mine.
I fought not to squirm.
"Please. Wait. Please."
She tilted her head, but she paused—and that alone gave me the confidence to keep going.
"We’re sorry for intruding on your home. It was selfish of the princes—and me—to assume that just because you are a seer, you’d be at our beck and call. You’re right to refuse us. You’re right to call them out for being rude. But please, I beg you, consider this. Just like he tried to say, we’ve come a long way. And not that it should matter to you, but if you could grant us even a moment of your time, one audience, it would make every bit of hell we went throu
