Chapter 6
The CaptureWhen Kyra and Khu-ren returned to their home early in the morning after the storm, they found Vann, the healer-priest, with Deva. She was sitting up and sipping broth from her favourite earthenware bowl, made by Kyra when she was a young girl.
The weariness that made Kyra ache in every limb, lifted the instant she saw her daughter so recovered.
‘Deva!’ she cried, and flung her arms around her, tears she had kept back all night welling from her eyes and falling on the girl’s dark hair.
Khu-ren stood beside them, no less relieved and pleased, though he did not show it quite so openly.
‘I have good news for you my love.’ Kyra was smiling through her tears.
Deva who had coldly held herself back from her mother’s embrace now turned to her, her eyes blazing with the qu
