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Firian
One thing was clear. Firian couldn’t tell Master Belik that Kiria would provide no new information. It was out of the question. The only thing to do was find some way around it.
“Which is a lie?”
“Is this another exercise?” Bard looked down from the top bunk. Dark bags puffed around his eyes.
If this practice didn’t matter so much, Firian might let him sleep.
Back at the palace, Kiria had started to use her Ability again. He drank in her Beauty any time he had a spare moment. Though he was careful, she got better at sensing his presence. Like someone half-turning her head to listen, she would lean into him just enough to confirm he was there.
She didn’t speak to him. But he remembered the look in her eyes in Shifra. In the golden brown, piercing gaze of her full beauty, th
