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"What did that ?" Aurelius slipped his shirt off and wrapped me in it It bore rips and tears but it covered most of me--likely because I could wrap it around myself twice
"Auri, I don’t know and my head hurts," I rubbed my forehead
"I’ll fold us back, then, since I know there’s no Ra’Ak" Aurelius’ breath arently and lifted me in his arms
"Aurelius, I’m sorry--we didn’t kno bad it was and there wasn’t anybody we could have sent that quickly" Someone named Kiarra paced in front of Aurelius and me Her hair wasn’t as white as mine, but it was close
"It doesn’tdown at me I sat beside him inside Lissa’s office--it was the second ti wo you out, right now" Karzac flung the door open so hard it bounced against the doorstop and allared at it and it stopped just short of his body That look could quell anyone or anything into submission, I think
"Karzac, I’m sorry and I have a headache Can we still be friends?" I asked in a small voice
"You saved one of ours Even so, I would have been your friend anyway," Karzac placed a war headache subsided, then disappeared "Little one, if I yell at you at any tihtened me There will be no other reason Do you understand?" He hadinto mine
"Yes," I nodded He still held my face in his hands, after all
"Aurelius, did she injure her Thifilatha in any way? Are her wings intact?" Karzac turned to Aurelius
"She hole," Aurelius assured my healer "As aripped one ofKarzac with us Tory walked in and together he and Karzac explained the events on Tulgalan to Aurelius They also inforrohen he heard that Nods had shotTory flushed, eive Aurelius the truth I knoas eh Karzac insisted that none of it wasThen ent over what had happened with Norian Keef and Lendill Schaff
"The ASD has soive ible and his eyes were red
"Master varip on our young one, here" Karzac jerked his head in rief than she has experienced already"
"If they allow their argument with me to interfere with their fair treatment of Reah, then they aren’terously so Karzac had insinuated that the Director and the Vice-Director ht treat me worse if Aurelius voiced his concerns Was that ould happen? It htly against his side "They haven’t treated Ry or me badly"
"You are sons of a queen, and the sons of Director Keef’s ruht be treated Reah is a rare treasure and they intend to use her any way they can"
"Is that what you think?" Norian Keef slaainst the wall it crushed the doorstop and split the fine wood of the door
"Yes, that’s exactly what I think, Director," Karzac spat "Tell h the entire palace and then doo flights of steps to the dungeon, when she shouldn’t have been on her feet at all Tell ers into a ranos pistol wound Tellwhen you stood there for o into convulsions and nearly die Were you hoping that your prisoner would confess so at you to help her!"
Norian’s face held guilt There wasn’t any other way to describe it I iping tears away--only noas I hearing the incident described I hadn’t been lucid enough at the time to say exactly what had happened And Karzac had been warning Aurelius about voicing his opinions to Norian Keef Well, Karzac’s teotten the better of hient Nilvas worse, now" Norian ran fingers through his brown hair He was slightly shorter than Karzac, and there was still soerous about Director Keef I wouldn’t want to be on the opposite side of Karzac’s anger, however Who knehat the physician ?
"You’ve already done that How can the worst become more so?" Aurelius’ eyes were so dark a red they were nearly black