Four
“What’s wrong?” I ask immediately, hurrying to Violet’s side and laying a careful hand on Victoria’s back. “Is she sick? Do we need to get her to a healing institute?”
“No, it isn’t like that. It’s not something immediately life-threatening. It’s … I can’t really explain it. She just seems different since … you know.”
I lower my hand slowly to my side. “Since Zed took her.” Can we talk later? I add silently to Chase.
Sure. Not going anywhere, remember?
“I’m probably just imagining things,” Vi says in a low voice, probably so as not to wake Victoria. “That’s what Ryn thinks. He says we didn’t know her long enough before the Zed incident to tell if there’s actually a difference now. And the healers checked her out within hours of Zed taking her, and they said she was fine.”
“But?”
