Chapter 116

CH116

Morgan.

I gasped, opening my eyes and looked up at Anya who looked down at me with concern.

"Lady Morgan, are you all right?"

back

The memory began to dissolve, the sounds retreated back into Pyra's memories, but I could shake the image of Siora's face contorted in shock. I could still smell the blood in the air. Her lifeless body ripped apart and thrown everywhere as the war raged on around her.

I swallowed and forced a smile, nodding. My heart pounding, tears stinging my eyes.

"Sorry, I just... had a vision, I think."

Anya's eyes widened. "You're a seer, Lady Morgan?"

I shook my head. "Not exactly."

I took a deep breath and stood. "Why don't you rest for a little while longer? We'll reconvene about this council business closer to lunch."

She nodded with a thankful murmur before lying back down. Pyra was oddly still and quiet in the back of my mind.

"Do you know where Tsuneo is?"

Haruka smiled. "Second lesson: listen to the palace.

I chuckled, nodding, feeling silly. I reached out, searching for him, when I found him growling and pacing in his office. He looked up as if he could feel me searching for him, then he vanished. "You needed me?"

I turned, gasping as he appeared behind me.

could you

He chuckled. "Recently."

I said and took his hand. "Could we speak privately

we floated and drifted

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the fire was still crackling softly in the hearth.

the present, but the

daughter... Siora. She looked just like Anya. She... she was killed in

mine for answers.

he blinked

start

had seen. "Anya looks exactly like her. I saw... I saw her death. Siora's. A

went stiff. I eyed him. "You know

looked away, his expression blank for a moment before he

"We can talk at length about... the last time there was a Convening of the Celestial Compass and the hell that broke out, but... is Pyra

I'm not sure if she meant to show it to me either." I shuddered. "It's like she's grieving

burned inside her. Pyra had lost so much in that war, and

I understood her fury, but what I didn't understand was this low-level and persistent sense of fear. What had scared her

Haruka. She was already sitting with Maya in her private

I hope everything is

"Sorry, I

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still wasn't speaking

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be

I held it back. Anya had been through a lot, she had suffered greatly, but she was strong. Pyra's desire to coddle her

already been taken from her. I sat down and poured myself some

"Sounds great."

Haruka

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