Kenna
When Avani returned, he was distraught, not because of the pending attack, but because of Ember’s resolve that she and the others are going to die. He was inconsolable until Merethyl stepped in and calmed him.
“I don’t think I can do it, Mere. I don’t think I can kill them. They didn’t ask for this,” he snarls, making the earth rumble around us.
“I know, my love. I know. We will do everything we can to try to keep them alive. Everything in our power, Avani,” she said. She pulled him to her, holding him while she looked at us.
“She told Avani that they know we have to kill their riders and that all three of them would prefer death to the life sentence they’ve been given.”
That had been heartbreaking for all of us to hear. Every one of us who is claimed knows that it could have be
