CHAPTER 3The evening banquet was one of the grander I’ve seen the Regent throw, with his numerous guests scattered at low tables throughout the dining hall and a new mural painted along the inner wall depicting the progression of the solar eclipse they had congregated together to witness. My cage was mounted on a dais at the front, near the Regent’s table and in full display of the entire room, though the patrons I wished most to impress were situated in a corner near the door. The Regent had exiled the Merodines as far from him as possible. It had to be because of his distaste for Dourack. I couldn’t imagine anyone being bored by Tylen.
He was coming. Tonight. A clandestine meeting that put his entire status within his precious social Circle at risk. I had been traded, purchased, won at
