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"This Jasonyou care for him?" he asks casually

"I did Why?"

"You think of him often," he replies "Besides, I have spoken to no one in four days This place is driving me mad"

"So you're in my business because you're bored That's fantastic," I say sarcastically and rest a hand on my hip, unienuinely give a shit"

"I cared for you for four days, did I not?"

And sawfrom me, but you don't really care what I think or feel or" E criticism I can't handle today, I shut up

The jackass who ood to you," he observes

This room is way too small for the two of us "I didn't enter another world to talk about my horrible luck with men!"

"Mayhap if you appreciated your unique gifts rather than pitied yourself, you would not have settled for adownabout physical gifts

I can't suin my misery?

He's not the first person to tell me this My mother did, too The only person who always found me beautiful, nofor men who didn't think of me in the same way She liked Jason but still told me to find someone who didn't make me cry once a week

If I don't put so to throw et out of here?"

"Can you fly?"

"No"

He's opening the s "Can you swim better than you ride a horse?"

"Maybe a little"

Perplexed by his questions, I return to the other side of the prison and peer out of aI noticed the sky before; this time, I look down

"Holy shit How is this possible?" We're in a floating tower over a bay deep enough that its waters are almost black, the nearest beaches a hefty mile swim There are five more towers evenly spaced and suspended between the beach and us

"Magic put us here It ivesthe roped lengths of his forearms and the strain of his biceps inside the sleeves of his tunic