It had been a full day since Jay had read that awful letting from her b*tch mother, and she'd been tense and down. When she wasn't organizing the battle plan, she was out in the training area, practicing with her sword, or showing off her moves to the troops, so I thought I'd do something nice for her before we left to see her Dragon teacher tomorrow. Besides, I wanted to give her a romantic date. I got my sister to distract Jayla after our afternoon war meeting, so I could set everything up, but she just linked me and said they were returning. I lit the last of the moon-fire candles, pale blue flames that shivered like captured starlight. We'd traded for them with a coven a few years ago. Once they were all lit, I turned on some music, and it dawned on me that I didn't know what music m

