-Ladon-
“Ladon.”
I looked over my shoulder, seeing Carter walk toward me. I was standing on one of the balconies in Mefan’s castle, just watching the oasis behind it that had grown back after the fire. It was once again the beautiful place it had always been, and it was so calming to look at.
“What’s on your mind?” I inquired as Carter came to stand beside me.
I knew he had noticed the change in me after I had come back from the North. It had been a few weeks now, but it was clear I was even less myself than I used to be.
I wasn’t even trying to go out and disobey Ashes’s orders, which was, for everyone, even more troubling. I just stayed here in The Red Desert, walking around, thinking, wondering, and seeing her in my dreams all the time.
I had thought it would pass. I had thought t
