"You knew his game from the moment you saw him, and I should have listened to you at the start. "I will eat nothing he gives me," said Aeriel, kissing her cheek. "No," said Erin, coming back from the window. "If we go now," she said, "we are sure to be taken, for the suzerain will soon grow impatient and send to see why I have not come. The high families will take us in."īut Aeriel hung back. Slippered feet beyond the door padded away. "Tell your lord," Aeriel said, "that I will join him shortly. "The suzerain requests you to come to him upon the terrace." , His words were interrupted by a rapping at the door. "There is a door in the wall I picked the lock of years ago, that I might steal in and out again unseen. I dare not stay another hour."Įrin was also on her feet. "We must flee this place, at once, while darkness holds. By the window, Erin awoke and seeing the dawnlight, gave a cry.Īeriel stood up. Dawn lit the highest spires of the villa. She looked up then, and realized it was not the flame that had dimmed, but the room that had grown more light. The lamp Erin had set upon the floor was burning very low. How long she had been sitting, lost in contemplation, she did not know. Aeriel found herself coming out of her thoughts.
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