“Was it really necessary to go all the way to Tanchar?” Einith groaned and flopped back on their ridiculously plush bed in their ridiculously opulent appointed room in the palace. “We couldn’t we just part ways in Iestut?”
“This was your idea.” Tae rolled over and buried his face into one of the pillows. He wanted to sleep more than anything at that second, even share intimacies with his Bonded. “You are my sun, dear heart, but go back to sleep.”
The journey out of Alahanai was sedate to the point of boring and Tae had been grateful for that small mercy. Lasra and Mazom kept to themselves mostly, the old Archmage giving his Bonded a complete update on the world, as it had changed in the half a millennia he had slept.
When they reached Iestut, Tae’s parents insisted they stay for as long
