Chapter Thirty-FiveRahne kept his head down, striding beside and just behind Belena while they proceeded down the long corridors of Castle Randar. Given the Queen's mercurial emotional state, made even more so by the revelation of her second son's betrayal, he thought it best to neither speak nor meet the eyes of any guards they came across.
Father, if you could see me now …
“You are Agrusian,” Belena said, breaking into his thoughts.
“Yes, Your Highness,” he replied, quickening his pace to walk alongside her.
“I've always wanted to see more of our world. I've heard there is a place in Agrus where the sunsets are the most beautiful on all Elystra.”
Rahne suspected the Queen was keeping the conversation casual to avoid collapsing into tears, so he played along. “The Cliffs of Doona. My
