Arwen's POV
Kai finds me the morning after I stood at the edge of the ceremony grounds and watched Draven look at the standing stones like they owed him something.
I am in the greenhouse. I have been coming here in the early mornings before the day starts because it is the one place in the academy where nothing is required of me and the plants do not have agendas. I am sitting on the floor between the raised beds with a cup of tea going cold in my hands when Kai comes through the door and sits down across from me with the expression of someone carrying a delivery they have been thinking about how to make.
"My father told Draven something last night," he says. "I need to tell you the same thing."
I look at him over the rim of my cup. "About the bond."
"About the bond." He settles cross
