Chapter 42
She kissed him. Perhaps that was the gentlest way Madeline could wake her husband and shake him loose from whatever was on his mind. She had been watching him as he slept. She tried to peek into his mind, but it wasn’t possible when he was sleeping. Her theory was that when he was asleep, his mind was not in an active state, so she couldn’t look into it. He must be having a nightmare. She hoped it was a nightmare because a nightmare was simply a dream. But if it was a flashback disturbing him, it reflected past events—and those she couldn’t fix.
“Good morning, First Councillor. How long have you been up?” He opened his beautiful gray eyes and looked at her.
“Since sunrise.”
He laughed. They didn’t have a sunrise in Eudaiz because they didn’t have the same solar system as Ear
