He paced and she waited anxiously. Everything was balanced on a very sharp edge from a very high cliff right now. If the president refused to marry Anatu, if Balthazar wouldn't let her help Ter, what could she do?
"You will stay on board, but you may spend as much time as you want with your sister."
She soon realized that staying on board the ship wouldn't work to bring her closer to Ter. Aurora clung to him. "I'm so scared, Balthazar. She won't speak to me or even look at me."
"I will send Nebuchadnezzar to instruct her in the proper behavior toward my human," he said, his look intent, as if gauging the correctness of what he'd just said.
"No, please don't do that. She's had a lifetime of being told how to act. No, I need to take her home. I've got a room ready for her in the foundati
