Sage Pov
I couldn’t help the rush of emotions spilling through me at her words, despite how confused I was at the same time. Go home, she had said. Wasn’t I already home? Sitting here, in this house that I was born in? But at the same time, this didn’t feel like home to me anymore. I wondered distantly, if it ever really did. Maybe when I was a child, running around carefree with Jareth, Lenny, and Falyn. Back then, when everything was fun and simple. But then I got older, and Jareth and Lenny went to the life they chose for themselves, while I was shoved towards the crown. I revolted, I hated it, I never wanted it. Jareth would help, train me when he had time, and allow me to call myself an assassin, but I never was. The others would tease me and make me feel like a child playing pretend
