Despite all the changes Atissa had told Veelk about, Kaighal looked the same way it always did, but his sister and Mawi had never visited it and stared at everything around them with curiosity and amusement. The northern district was not much to look at if someone asked Veelk, with its shabby townhouses and narrow alleys, but it sufficed for his companions.
Atissa, on the other hand, walked through the street uneasily as if Kaighal hadn’t been her home. Veelk couldn’t blame her. With the silhouette of a demon in the skies, everything around her must have reminded her of recent events. Back in the forest, when she was facing the thugs, she seemed proud and determined, but the closer they got to the city, the more her shoulders slumped.
He had to admit: it wasn’t how he’d pictured Yoreus’s
