“Are…are you sure?”
When Killian came into my chambers to speak with me so late in the night, I would never have imagined the news that he would tell me.
Where he once faced away from me, facing the door, he turned around to meet my gaze. “Do you really need me to answer that?” he asked. Before I could answer, he approached me with a story. “You know…that Adanis wasn’t always here alone,” Killian said.
So, he did have a family! “What happened to them?”
“His mother died long ago, and his father not too long after,” answered KIllian.
“So then he’d been here for a long time by himself.”
Killian shook his head. “No-well, at least not at the time of my departure from Ethra.”
“What do you mean?”
“Adanis had a devoted uncle,” said Killian.”
I could not say that I was necessarily surpr
