“Hera!”
Something in my chest tightened upon hearing my name echoing through the air around me. I could have sworn that I felt the wind wrap around my body, feel it run it’s fingers up and down my arm, twirling it’s fingers with mine. But unfortunately for me, the feeling was far from welcoming. On the contrary, it repulsed me, made me want to pull away, to disappear.
“Hera! Get down from there! You’ll hurt yourself!”
Those simple words were all that it took for me to know that my hiding place was no longer much of a hiding place. No. I had been seen, been discovered, by no one other than the very person whom I had been hoping to get away from.
“I’ve been climbing trees since I was a child, your highness.”
“But these trees aren’t Continent trees. They’re Kingdom trees—”
“And wha
