Until She Awakens

Lucius POv

Selah found me outside before dinner.

She had been debriefed twice already — once by Thorne's steward, once by the village guard captain. I watched her walk toward me with the walk of someone who had something they needed to say and were working up to it.

"There's something I didn't tell them," she said.

I waited.

She sat on the low wall beside me and looked at her hands.

"In captivity