I was pacing from the one corner of my chambers to the next, feeling like I was about to lose my mind. I knew that it had been my choice to come here, my choice to leave the dining hall, but when I had done so, I had been fully convinced that Dae would come after me, that he would follow my lead and leave too. But I had been wrong. Very wrong, by the looks of it, because it had been ages and he still hadn’t come here.
I had lost count of the amount of times that I had gone into his chambers to see whether he had gone there instead of coming here, but every time that I had done so, his chambers had been empty. I was left with no choice but to acknowledge the fact that he must have stayed in the dining hall—for what reason, he alone would know.
I had taken a bath in the meantime, in a fe
