Chapter Forty-Nine
Starlyn studied her sister. They’d been fighting for far too long. Arria could not be saved. Starlyn knew that now. She would have to defeat her sister once and for all. But Starlyn didn’t know if she could kill her. However, if it came to her own life, and the life of Noraes’s and her child, Starlyn would do what she had to. At least, she hoped she could.
Arria grinned at her, spinning her violet flamberge from one side to the other. She played with the weapon like it was a toy. Arria had always been a show-off. Starlyn remembered as children, Arria would receive all the attention. Well, Arria wasn’t a child at the same time as Starlyn. But a hundred summers was still a child in the eyes of the kheshlars. For the longest time, Starlyn had looked up to her older sister
