Chapter 4
“Trystan.” Why was Alixa’s voice so soft? There was nothing about her that was supposed to be soft. She was hardened. Angry.
He stared wordlessly at the assembly before him. Cullenspire was in mourning for their king, and Lady Yaro wanted to put Trystan on full display. She believed he was the only one that could prevent the weight of despair from crushing all of Dreach-Sciene. The news would have been winding its way through every village and across the countryside over the past week. Marcus Renauld had been their hero king. He’d been crowned on a battlefield and never once stopped fighting for his people.
When Trystan was a child, he had badgered his father relentlessly to regale him with stories of their warrior mother. Now he couldn’t recall much of what he’d been told, an
