She burst into Dillan’s room right as he had been busy memorizing the names of all the High Kings and Queens. Lucius said he would be tested the next day, so he needed to focus. The last thing he needed was a straw-haired distraction. Yet his door slammed against the wall with a great boom as she bounced in, a huge grin on her goofy face. His fists clutched the scroll with the list of names so hard he crumpled the parchment. The table he leaned his elbows against practically shook in his attempt to keep his rising temper at her intrusion in check.
“Dil-lan!”
His ears rang when she split his name in two like that. She would say it in such an annoying singsong voice that his eardrums practically bled out from having to listen. He literally counted down the days until he would be allowed t
