Chapter Forty-Two

**Rox**

Thalia and I returned to her and Rylan’s tent, where a relieved nanny handed Thalia the fussy babies. She fed them both in the nursing chair and I laid down on the bed, suddenly feeling exhausted.

I woke up sometime later, realizing I had fallen asleep, and looked around, noticing that Thalia was gone. The nanny looked up from the book she was reading and saw I was awake, smiling softly an