The next few days of travel were mostly spent in silence, with the two of them trying not to look at each other in order to lessen the pain in Astrid's head. But the night of the third day, when Raiden took the first watch, Astrid turned in her bedroll to look at him. She studied the tense jaw, stormy eyes, and tousled hair and couldn't help feeling as though something about him definitely was familiar to her. Whether it was as a friend or enemy, she still wasn't quite sure.
"Where did we meet?" she asked at last.
Raiden didn't turn to look at her, keeping his gaze locked on the crackling fire. "In a town called Greyfair," he said. "You were running from Starfell after your brother betrayed you."
"Caleb betrayed me?" Astrid asked quietly, her mind wobbling on the precipice between bel
