Chapter 45
He was going to arrange a trip for us. A small riding excursion so I could just be a woman for a day, to breathe, to not worry about commands or threats or shadows. Mason locked himself up in part of the house working on strategies. During the evenings, I was debriefed on what was going on. Coleum was in full out war now. They had been ever since the night of my “Awakening”. We still had a lot of revolutionaries on the island, and those that had stayed were doing damage where they could.
Churches had been taken over or burnt to a crisp. Schools put out of commission. The royal military roamed the streets, looking for traitors, and those that they found were hung by the guillotine. Apollo was still telling everyone that I had the future heir to Coleum, and that the revolution
