They made love throughout the night, as if it would be the last time they would ever feel their arms around each other. Just before first dawn, a female courier named Ballara appeared at their door to take Kerr and deliver him to Joberiah. With Rion’s arms holding her tightly, Annie watched their still-sleeping son being flown away as sobs hitched in her chest. She had to make it through these next few days showing as brave a face as she could possibly muster. Her future, her husband’s future, and the future of their children depended on it.
But it was going to be so damn hard.
Barely sixteen minutes after first dawn a guardsman came to their door to escort them to the Council Cathedral. He was a man somewhat older than Rion, wearing dark green robes and carrying a sword at his hip. In
