Aria needed to speak to Isika. But how? And could she do it quickly?
"Do we have any Othra in the city?" she asked her advisors.
"Othra?" Famir asked. The others looked just as puzzled. How could they not know what Othra were?
Aria shook her head. That way held no answers. She asked Gavi to remain near the throne room and went quickly down to the lower city, shadowed by her guards. She knocked on the blue door with the circle on it. Mara opened the door and blinked.
"I"m still not used to having a queen in the lower city," she said, standing back to let Aria into the room.
"I"m trying to get people away from the idea that there is a lower and upper city," Aria said, pacing with her hands tucked tight under her arms. "But I still think of it that way, too."
Mara gave her a look. "Hope
