Thirty
I remain hidden in Vi’s room chewing impatiently on my fingernails while Ryn checks out what’s happening with Mom. He comes back to report that the healers going in and out of her room keep shooing him away. I pace around, my brain repeating, She’s awake, she’s awake, she’s finally awake! Nerves shoot through me. There’s so much I have to ask her. So much she needs to explain.
Dad arrives. I want to rush into Mom’s room with him, but Ryn holds me back, telling me to give them a little bit of time alone. “He needs to explain all the things that have happened while she’s been asleep. The fact that we know about her being a Seer, and how she was abducted, and then your expulsion from the Guild. Just give her a few minutes for things to sink in before you go rushing in there. And whil
