Allissa
“Then we don’t come by the sky,” Heath said. He had been quiet through the whole council, turning his knife through his fingers, and now he set it down. “Every fortress watches the way it was attacked last, and hers has never been attacked at all. There are ways to move through country that never touch the sky, and I have spent a career learning them.”
“And the one who sings to her,” I said. “If there really is a kind heart inside those walls, how do we find it from out here?”
Eira smiled at the fire without much humor in it. “We don’t. If I have read your daughter rightly from the stories, she is finding it for us.”
We built the bones of it right there in the dirt. Heath would find us a way in from the ground and where the hole in her watch would be. Eira would carry the count
