Kara sighed, leaning against the wall just as the ship swayed again, making her stomach churn. Elora shifted, and Kara looked down at the girl sleeping with her head in her lap. Just a few minutes ago, she had been crying inconsolably until her tiredness grew stronger than the fear.
Seeing Raena press a dagger to her own throat, then drop helplessly like she was dead had been hard for Kara, but for Elora… Not only that, but she was forced to watch her father fight that giant of a man, getting pushed further and further away while he was desperately trying to get to them. That little girl was probably at her wit’s end right now.
Emer was a monster. She couldn’t fathom what could have happened to him to turn him this way. She had seen wicked and violent people, pouring their hate or insecu
