Chapter 37: Akton
By some unspoken agreement they stopped outside the tunnel entrance to watch the day creep over the Queen’s City. The tunnel had dumped them out halfway up the mountain outside of the confines of Ylenia, high enough to watch as the fresh, golden light bathed the city in a new day. Everything from windows to the polished sides of mansions gleamed, and Akton heard Talfryn breathe out long.
“It’s amazing every time I look at it,” he said. “I don’t want to leave.”
“When you barely bothered to pull your head out of a book to see it for weeks?” asked Akton. When Talfryn shot him a wounded look he backed off. “I’d rather not go, either. But the only way I see out of this is to just disappear—we’d never be able to come back here.”
“Live in hiding?” asked Talfryn. “You do know
