Ariane:
When my soul settled tight beneath my skin, my bones ached, my muscles were tight, and so was my heart, aching for those I had moved on with flame and the prayer I had once heard whispered among the trees, words that were barely a memory until last night.
When I shifted, I felt Kaelen and Varek on either side of me. They had come into the room where I had hidden from them all, uninvited but not unexpected.
I nudged Varek. I still didn't feel like fixing things between Kaelen and me when the hurt bled so fresh. But Varek... I wasn’t angry at him, at least not in the same way as with Kaelen. So I asked, “What does Elarin Ves’tahl mean?”
He groaned softly, stretching like a cat waking from slumber. “Mmm. It means little eternity, I think. It’s from a dead language that is nearly f
