CHAPTER FIFTEEN
“He’ll be fine,” Cassius assured me as he stepped up to my side with a smile on his lips. “He’s been trying all his life to get himself killed, and it hasn’t worked out yet.”
I blinked at him as the old man joined us. “What the young master wishes to tell you is that His Highness has been less than careful in his personal safety, and yet he still lives.”
Cassius laughed. “I’m as bad at my words as I am at my magic, aren’t I? Anyway, as Sfetnic says, Luca will be just fine. What you need to do is focus on your own safety.”
I tilted my head to one side. “Sefnet?”
He grinned as he jerked his thumb over his shoulder at the taller man. “He’s Sfetnic. It’s not easy to pronounce, but I think he likes it that way.”
A ghost of a smile appeared on Sfetnic’s pale lips as
