Chapter 24
The Fall
Kyura: the Zaldeaan Realm, Four Days After the Siege of Tarlah
Kyura sat tensely in his carriage, barely aware of scrunching Regent Derlan’s letter until its contents became illegible. The words still burned in his mind.
“Kyura?” Aoran said cautiously.
Kyura should have brought Companion Armar with him. He needed Karmarn. He needed his wife. Why were the people he needed most dead or absent? He needed Syenne, too. He shouldn’t have had her investigating his uncle. He should have asked her to secure lines of information into his camp.
It was bad enough that the generals had concealed the approach of the Timbalens. The First General’s head arriving in Zaldeaa City before the rest of his body ought to inform warmongers of his feelings about that. Syenne’s people were
