Chapter 17 – Laying the LinesGailin wondered privately, behind her strongest shields, if Vamilion would have been more amazing if he wasn't grieving, but something stirred in her soul as she watched him slowly, stiffly stand. Should she leave, letting him settle his fractured world before he took up new pieces and started a new life with the compulsion to love her? She had already seen him, unconscious on the plains, and felt that stirring but it would grow stronger if she let him in now, comforting him.
“Should I go?” she whispered mentally to him, looking at his stooped back and not feeling a single shard of pride at what she had done that this tall, powerful man could walk again.
“No, Goren will take you to the Truth Chamber. I'll be there briefly. I'll….I'll need your help.”
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