I turned and smiled at Zara, trying as hard as I could not to portray that I was not quite myself. My hands shook slightly but she didn't seem to notice as she came to my side.
"Morpheus came home." she grinned, her dark eyes sparkling.
"I worry about that, Zara. He's still vulnerable." I admitted, forcing myself to ignore the fact that I had just entered the Dreamlands without aid.
She laughed at me and took my slightly trembling hand in hers, looping it through the crook in her arm and urging me silently to walk with her.
"How is Cassia?" I asked, knowing full well that what the child had done could have resulted in her execution by Icelus.
Zara's entire body tensed and she looked away.
"She is well."
I knew without a shadow of a doubt that the woman was lying. Something terrible
