My feelings of hurt and depression left when I watched Ira walk out of the room. Before that moment, he had been ignoring me in order to keep his emotions in check. I understood where he was coming from, but I didn't change the fact that I was heartbroken. We spoke to each other and after he realized that not only did Maia know that he was in love with someone else, she was fine with it and had been visiting me with the full knowledge as well.
That meant that he no longer had any reason to ask Maia not to come and see me, though it still made him somewhat uncomfortable. Regardless of that, he came to visit me later in the evening as he promised. I no longer had the desire to leave the palace but I still felt like a burden. I was hiding away in his palace, something that would have been se
