Sebastian's POV
She said his name and everything rearranged itself.
Not loudly. Not with drama. She said Sebastian, I have to tell you something about Kael in a voice that was quiet and careful and completely certain, and I looked at her face and I knew before she said another word that whatever came next was going to cost me something I was not prepared to lose.
We stayed in the trees. She talked and I listened and I kept my expression still through all of it because that is what I have always done when something has hit me hard enough to flatten me. I go still. I go inward. I present nothing to the outside that can be used.
She told me everything. The covered walkway. The storage building door. Kael's voice stripped of its warmth. The other voice she had not recognised. The exact wor
