Lyra's POV. I took a deep breath, looking thoroughly throughout everything that had happened and figured out that I had been making a huge mistake all alone and that was going to cost me a lot of things if I was going to listen to sound advice. One thing that I had no done was making sure that I had been able to find a balance to these things or else I was going to have to keep explaining. My mind drifted towards kael and what he might be doing. Preparing myself for a ball wasn't the hardest thing, it was getting into that place without being recognized I also doing whatever Lucius wanted. I couldn't be able to kill Kael on the first attempt because I still needed to go in and scout a few areas. If I was going to do this successfully then I needed to know my way around everywhe

