Chapter 21"Are you unhappy?" the commander asked Casina, when he found her in the garden a few weeks later, once he had fulfilled his other obligations and caught up on his work. She was sitting by a fountain, a forlorn look about her. He observed the sudden tightening of her lips, her sad expression when she nodded and ducked her head.
"I just feel like I"m...suffocating here," she said, while staring at his feet. "I need to be...doing something...other than sitting around here. I"m...so...bored."
Uri studied her bent head with indecision. To allow her freedom might well compromise her safety again, and this bothered him greatly. Still, he knew she couldn"t stay locked up forever. The incident at Dandor and then in the rainforest had been unfortunate, but he had rescued her in a timely
