“Saret is going to be on the ship with us,” Korum told Mia as they walked on the beach the evening before their departure. “The Council wants him back on Krina so the Elders can try him themselves.”
Mia’s stomach twisted with remembered fear. She still had occasional nightmares from the Arena fight—horrifying dreams in which Korum didn’t emerge as the victor. Saret had come far too close to killing her lover, and she could never forget the agony of those moments when she’d thought she lost Korum.
As though reading her mind, Korum said, “There’s nothing to worry about, my sweet. He’ll be locked up the entire trip.”
“Which will only be a couple of weeks, right?” Mia asked.
“Yes,” Korum confirmed. “Getting sufficiently far away from Earth is what’s going to take the longest. This is a ver
