Chapter 18
Hope
It has been a rather boring week for me. No one came to summon me for dinners. No one visited me except the haughty maids who came to serve me food with evident distaste in their eyes, like I had wrong them in some way. The only thing that has been keeping me company is India's diary.
I read a page in the morning, a page in the afternoon, a page in the evening. I was persistent in savoring it because I had no idea the next time that I would have access to such a thing. The next time might be when I got out of this lockdown and went ahead to secretly visit Amara once again.
Yes, that was my plan. Just because King Darius commanded me not to go there again, didn't mean that I would blindly obey him. Without any friends or source of entertainment in this entire castle, I m
