☉DANIKA
I had tried to follow the men after they had gone, to catch a glimpse of their faces, but I had heard the chatter of another group of people walking towards me and I had abandoned thoughts of listening more to their conversation. I slipped out of the palace anyway, headed instead to the sparring grounds.
As I walked through the courtyard, I tried to brush the thoughts of mutiny and treason and conspiracies from my mind as I raced to the sparring grounds, but they just would not stop coming. They only took different forms, and everything seemed to further heighten the feeling of powerlessness that I felt.
I had warned Finarfin. I had told him that he was being too hard on everyone around him, but would he listen? Now in his first act as king, he’s managed to unsettle those who ha
