The older knight’s confession didn't abet me in the least in getting rid of my uneasy mind. Now that I’d realised there was nothing but death awaiting me no matter where I’d gone, I wanted it to be bestowed on me by none other than Tobias himself, and thus an entreaty for the same was made to the man watching over me.
“Absolutely not. You’re not going anywhere,” objected Kai, as impertinently as his discourteousness was to permit him. “Was I a fool to protect you from my bother when he wanted to rip your heart out? Would it have been better if I were to have abandoned you there?”
Equally frustrated with him, I snarled at him, “I do not remember calling you.”
“The next time you hurry to your death, I will remember that,” declared Kai before storming out of the bedchamber, muttering some
