Elora looked at her sleeping roommate as the guard locked the cell behind her. She walked quietly to the corner of the room, sat on the floor, and wrapped her arms around her knees, burying her hand on the knee. " What that guard did is uncalled for; how could he touch the vessel of the goddess?" Naya said in her head in disgust, " he deserves to have his hand cut off for that." Even though Elora doesn't want to admit it, this would be the first time Naya is saying something sensible and something she agrees with. " But I don't think you should have taken that kind of approach about it". ' oh yeah, who was she kidding? 'she said in her mind, rolling her eyes in her head. " Your aggressive response has done nothing but bring more humiliation to us, put us in the spotlight, and now we'v

