Chapter 5 Taytra All Taytra wanted to do was to bust the door down and give those men a piece of her mind. Her people had nothing. The Dark Ones had taken their homes and burned what little they had created in their short weeks on the plain, forcing them to beg in the street for food. They hadn’t been allowed a meeting with the council for days. Serena had fed them bits of information, what she was pushing forward and what was getting pushed back to a different meeting, but it wasn’t enough. She wanted to thank them. But to scream at them. She wanted to grovel at their feet. What did it matter? She had already seen people begging in the street. They could work together. If only they would let her in the room so she could tell them that. men“Tay,” Ward said, glancing up from the list of p

