Chapter Nine
I shivered beneath Tahlia’s finger, but I did not look away. “Does it frighten you?”
Tahlia lifted her shoulders beneath my cloak in a shrug. I heard the silk of her wedding dress rustle. “It did at first. You were not here for me to ask questions, and few of the rumors surrounding the followers of the Keeper of Secrets are pleasant. But I eventually realized that you are not the kind of person who would align yourself with that aspect of the goddess without reason.”
She tilted her head at me. “We both have power that must be kept secret. Yours is just different from mine.”
I had never quite thought about it that way, but I realized she was right. Both of us held power that could be used to kill—power that the nobles would seek to bind to their own ends if they learned of
