Chapter Fifteen
Pieces of the Puzzle
Arinwyn steeled herself for the barrage of questions she knew would come as she shifted her position on the blanket she sat on atop one of the sand dunes. Thanks to Nasir’s unsubtle introduction of her as Numarin’s daughter, she had been forced to reveal the rough outline of her life story—a tale she had told no other elf, until now. She suppressed a sigh.
I suppose my time of hovering on the outskirts of events was bound to come to an end eventually.
Even though Nasir had sat and listened without comment, Arinwyn had become adept at reading his inscrutable features. The faint glimmer in his hazel eyes told her he was pleased she was finally opening herself to one of her own kind. She resisted the urge to smack him for putting her in this position i
