Chapter 21
THE LOWSUN DAYS were the darkest in the City of Glass, and this day was darker than ever before.
Zaina followed Rider Taino and the team into the Knight Council chamber, where she had been once before, although it now seemed many years ago, when every seat at the table was occupied and daylight had played with the sheets of glass in the ceiling.
Today they were few, the public gallery was empty, and the sky was dark.
Jevaithi sat at the far end of the table. Dressed in a dark colour, and with her hair tied in a ponytail, she looked like a ghost in the low light. Her eyes looked dark and sunken, her face much sharper than before.
She met Zaina’s eyes, and the corner of her eye crinkled with the faintest smile, making Zaina’s cheeks glow.
She looked almost as frail as the wo
