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Kiria
She heard someone say, “No one can see the Kepress.”
“Who is it?” Kiria asked. After staying in her room for a week, alone except for the doctor and visits from her parents, she was anxious to see someone else. She was too weak to be very good company, but hours without human voices grated on her. It felt as though no one else existed. The silence gave her too much time to focus on the pain.
The guard didn’t seem to have heard her. “Who is it?” she asked again.
“Amir Daelon,” he replied.
Images flooded over her against her will. Searing pain and the look of panic in his face. She was struggling in her own blood with the thick arrow standing upright in her shoulder, he was ripping her dress, applying a tourniquet, and praying… She remembered hearing him pray before she lost c
