Her hand came down on something, and she yelped at a sudden sting. The tip of her finger was bleeding. Clearing away the mud revealed one of Miri’s throwing knives on the ground. Her friends were still here! Somewhere…
Sebastian giggled. “But I can hurt you!”
“You were supposed to take care of him.”
Miri stomped along a narrow path with her fists clenched so hard her nails were digging into her palms. “I’m not listening to this,” she snarled. “Leave me alone.”
Valia poked her head out from behind a tree and smiled the smile that had always made Miri feel better when she was a little girl. “It was the one thing I asked you to do, and you let me down,” she said. “Have you seen what’s become of him?”
Rounding on her mother, Miri shoved a finger in the other woman’s face. “I was a child!”
