Chapter 26
Jabari watched Gavi across the low table as his brother addressed the room. Gavi had come to give the resistance members of the Circle an update on the palace. Days had gone by since they had arrived, days filled with ideas and plans for how to extricate Aria. Nothing had come up that made any sense, and Jabari grew frustrated. He had tried to talk to Isika in his mind, but she wasn’t within his reach somehow, and he didn’t know where she was anymore. He tapped his fingers on the table until a look from Ivy made him stop.
Nearly everyone was there—Enfa the Karee warrior, Mara, the handful of laborers who were part of the resistance in some way Jabari didn’t understand, Jabari, Ivy, and Deto, of course. Herrith was late, so Gavi had started without him. Herrith was having more
