In the morning, I felt marginally better. My talk with Sember must have released at least one of my worries, because I wasn’t plagued by nightmares of accidentally killing anyone anymore.
Nirrin waved me to her table when she saw me, face beaming with excitement. “Did you know you would come back a hero? Because you’re a hero now. I’m so happy you’re my friend.”
Her exuberance garnered a few glances, and I reddened a little. “I’m no hero.”
“Of course you are! Bren says you saved everybody. Isn’t that what heroes do?”
“I guess. Um, have you seen Remi?”
“Not since yesterday. He told me not to bother you, that you wanted to be alone. I bet you were pretty tired, huh?”
I nodded as my eyes strayed away. I had expected him to show up last night, to see how I was doing. But this made more
