Chapter Two
I held myself back from rubbing my eyes. The product of my sleepless night obsessing with the tarot reader's words. For some reason, something about them was terrifying me. Maybe it was the idea that I might end up messing things up. Or perhaps it was more simple than that. Maybe it was to do with it being a big change. No one was ever a big fan of change like this.
"Edrice?" the High Priestess called me.
I turned to see her standing in the doorway, a disapproving look on her face. I ran through a mental list of what my duties were today and came up with nothing I could possibly have messed up.
"Your Eminence." I dipped my head as a sign of respect, though I wasn't sure I felt it was deserved. The High Priestess was a cold woman. She had been for as long as I could remember
