Thessaly left without being asked.
She had the social intelligence to recognize when a room needed to reduce its population and the self preservation instinct to act on it, and she took Oryn with her, who went with the expression of a man who was equal parts relieved and disappointed to miss whatever was about to happen.
The three of us sat in Caelan’s study. Caelan behind his desk because that was where he went when he needed structure around him. Kael in the chair across from it because that was the available chair. Me on the window seat because the window seat was mine at this point, I had spent enough mornings in it to have developed a proprietary relationship.
The silence lasted approximately ten seconds before Kael said, in the tone of someone who had spent time between worlds thi
