Chapter Twenty-Six Riona: one month later
Riona stood beside Shauna, shielding her eyes from the sunlight shining across Fela, a sight she’d never expected to see in the land of perpetual darkness.
“I never get tired of looking at it.” Shauna sighed, a blissful smile on her face. She’d arrived more than a week ago with the former Queen of Eldur. When Riona had first met Faolan, she’d seemed old and feeble, like she’d given up on life. But after Shauna’s careful nursing, Faolan was a new woman.
It was amazing what love could do to a person.
“The sunlight or your beautiful queen?” Riona nudged her playfully.
“Can I say both?” Shauna laughed. “She’s not a queen, though. Not anymore.”
“I don’t think you can ever take the queen out of a lady like Faolan.”
Faolan walked with her grandchil
