The air around them became still, more still than it was on such a hot day and it became so hot, she found it hard to breathe. Avyanna’s heart drummed inside her chest so loud it felt like she could hear it all over the room. The words of the king replayed in her head like her favorite song or Hadena’s lovely humming that always made her feel happy. Though this was more, it sent a wave of feeling into her already blown away heart, and the pain she had felt earlier, disperse into something different, so different it could not be connected to the anger and pain and confusion she had felt for the king. His words were simply all she had to hear like her heart had been waiting for ages so she could hear him say that. It felt like his words were all she had, to break all that was locked up withi
