Chapter 31
Jabari was in the city stables, going through the motions of taking care of the horses, but his mind was far from the task. He couldn’t believe that Gavi had come and told them that breaking Aria out of the Desert City was the wrong thing to do. Stay in Dhahara? Stay?! Impossible. They had been brainwashed, both of them.
What about Ben? Would Ben be brainwashed also, now that he was in the palace? What about Herrith? Jabari didn’t know who he could trust anymore.
Isika’s horse, Wind, turned his head suddenly and nipped at Jabari’s arm. Jabari loosened his grip on the brush when he realized how hard he was pulling it through the horse’s mane.
Sorry, friend, he said.
You are angry, the horse replied.
He was angry. He was angry with Gavi, at Jabari’s side as long as he could
