Chapter 22
It wasn’t until the fairy was delivered and left crouched in her cage in the kitchen that Cinder realized she’d seen her before. Beneath all that hair hanging over her face, beneath the gaunt face and the thin body, was the woman she’d met in the forest years ago.
That was when she had no idea how to fight. She had thought she did in those days because she had had two whole months of training from Silver.
But now that she was going on two years of training, she knew just how dangerous it had been for her to believe that she could fend for herself in the forest. She had gotten lucky—very lucky—when she made it out alive the first two times.
Those hunts were legendary now. They had been the beginning of the real hunts.
Now, every nobleman in all the lands came from miles arou
