Chapter 25
Xavier
The High Cliff royal traveling party was gone again within hours.
Olivander and Unity had wanted to return home as soon as possible to make sure everyone in Elaina was okay. They hadn’t even stayed the night to rest up, but they’d gathered some fresh supplies and had taken off again.
“Clean-up around the village is going well, though,” Valerio was telling me. “We’re a people of survival. Can’t stay knocked down for long. Just ask those Graykeys, hmm?”
There was jest in his voice, but I couldn’t find any humor myself. My world was dying, and I had the means to stop it. But it was too great a price to pay.
I wanted to rip at my clothes and claw my chest in agony. I wanted to rage at the sky over the injustice of it. And yet, I just sat there in a small room to the sid
