KAZIER
My body hasn't stopped shaking. It feels cold, the ice on my fingertips.
Please.
Is she safe?
River had gone— but what if it wasn't enough? My father wasn't clumsy with anything he did, and he would make sure to kill her. He wouldn't make a mistake.
A feeling worse than pain is deep in my throat.
And I close my eyes. Then I call for her, remembering the few faint seconds I'd heard her voice. I'd felt her presence then, had heard the sweet softness of her words.
Nothing.
My head hangs forward. Rough gasps mix with the grinding of the chains as I tremble, tugging uselessly at the silver burning into my wrists.
Please. Please let him have gotten to her.
Just the thought of Rinei's lifeless eyes and an elven arrow impaled through her heart makes me shudder. I won't stop calli
