Chapter Seven The Feast‘Where are you going?’ Marlie called out.
Mai and Akra stopped. They both turned around, hearing her footsteps behind them.
‘I’m supposed to show you to your sleeping room and prepare you for the feast tonight.’
‘Feast?’
‘It’s the night of the blue moon,’ Marlie said, tucking her hands into her long open sleeves, hiding them. ‘We celebrate this night with a feast and song. Where are the others?’
‘Sahib has to stay with Viridi.’ Mai frowned. ‘I’m afraid we’ve lost Long. That’s what we’re doing now. We’re looking for him.’
‘I will ask my mother to send out some soldiers—seekers—to find him,’ she suggested. ‘Now you have to come with me.’
Mai and Akra had no choice but to go with her, travelling up stairs and through the royal building’s corridors, until they sto
