Chapter 20
IN THE NEXT few days, Zaina kept going over Jevaithi’s words, trying to figure out why she had confided in her, specifically. Maybe it was because everyone else already knew the story, or she thought, in light of the massive destruction of the explosion, that complaining about being threatened by the very people who were meant to protect you was irrelevant compared to the death and destruction that other citizens of the City of Glass had suffered.
But Zaina couldn’t ask.
Jevaithi didn’t come back to the stables, and Zaina didn’t spend as much time there anyway, because she got called away to do engineering jobs and spent more time at the back of the building, and at the eyrie to help with the Knights’ preparations. Weapons needed to be cleaned and checked. Powder guns were fi
