FIFTEEN
I was of half a mind to go to the gatekeeper’s lodge with the others, but decided after helping them haul all of Lady Sybilla’s belongings to her new quarters that close confines with Lady S. and the others was the last thing I needed. It took Fenice, Lisa, Vandal, Alden, and me combined a total of three hours to get all of Lady Sybilla’s things moved.
“Tell me again why she’s not just taking an overnight bag like the rest of us,” Fenice groaned when we lifted an upholstered recliner onto Vandal’s truck.
“Alden said she wouldn’t leave without everything. Thank god Adams got the loose stuff into boxes.”
“I can think of about a million other things I’d rather do tonight,” Vandal said, passing with two cardboard boxes, which he loaded beside the chair.
“I think that goes for all
