She rubbed her forehead. Why had her father taken to speaking in riddles?
"Let me put it this way." He sat down beside her, still grinning like a fool. "Your
mother couldna see my future, either."
"No." Hezal shook her head. He was wrong. "Mama told me that as soon as she
saw ye, she kent ye were hers."
"Love at first sight," he agreed, patting her leg. "But she never could see my
destiny."
Hezal gaped at her father, and the room started to spin just a bit. This didn't make
any sense at all . "Are ye certain?
That seemed a rather important thing her mother left out of her training.
He chuckled. "Aye, lass, I ken for certain."
"Wel , why no'?" Hezal asked, sure that she was missing some vital detail that
would make everything clear.
Her father shrugged his shoulders. "I'm no' s
