Her greeting came as a body-binding curse but after fighting off the same curse twice, my body was prepared for it. I broke out before she crossed over to haul me away. In fact, I broke out of it before it fully came over me.
Blood rushed to my head. It went to my eyes, my ears, my mouth. I tasted it, felt it, saw it. It made me shiver but then I smiled at the anger, the pure, unbridled rage I glimpsed in her eyes.
"Calla, I have been waiting for you." I did not know the truth in those words until I spoke them. I knew I awaited something. I knew something called to me, drew me out of the empty room in the king's castle but even before then, a restlessness churned in my guts. Now I knew why.
I ducked another of her curses as she advanced on me. She had a lot of nerve coming here, righ
