Lila sighed and unclasped more pieces of her armour, leaving them all over Helena’s bed. “When Soren told me what you said—I don’t agree, but I get it.”
Lila nudged her with her elbow and stood. “Even if the trainees are just because of Matias meddling, I’m glad you’re getting more time off. I think you’ve needed that—some space from it all.”
Helena spent days replaying theconversation. She bitterly missed having people to talk to, who cared about what she said.
She’d had trainees?
She remembered Stroud mentioning there being other healers like Elain Boyle, but Helena had assumed they’d come from somewhere else.
She couldn’t imagine Falcon Matias approving the addition of more healers.
Ilva Holdfast had worked very hard to make Helena’s vivimancy palatable to the Resistance. She’d de
