Chapter 36: Talfryn
Akton tensing in bed woke him, and after a moment Talfryn could hear the noise, too. Someone shuffling across the floor in the night. In their room. Talfryn had his arm over Akton, so he tapped him a few times with a finger to let him know he was awake and waited for whoever was here to come closer.
“If you want to give me confidence in your skills, you ought to wake when someone invades your space.” The voice was familiar, but Talfryn had a hard time believing the queen was really here. “Get up!”
Akton sat up as Talfryn rolled over and lit the sconces with a nod. The day after they had met with Ylenia in the garden, Shanna had given them a tough training regimen to follow—Akton’s was worse, in Talfryn’s opinion, involving far more physical exertion and mental puzzle
