Chapter One Hundred and Twenty

  Present Day

  Greshyn had pushed the horses hard and they had arrived at Elliard during the night, waking the keep with their arrival.

  When her father and Arithen had asked what had happened, Yelena had wept, her voice rasping in her raw throat, unable to form the words to explain what had happened, overwhelmed by her fear for Macedius and of Sylvin. Greshyn had tried to explain, but he had only known parts of the story – that he had returned to Sylvin’s rooms to find Yelena unconscious and Verina using the Fae roses to heal her.

  The mage had saved her life, enabling her to breathe again, and had rushed away saying that the king needed her. Greshyn had carried Yelena to the cart where Sylvin’s pages and the three human princes were huddled beneath blankets, unnoticed in the chaos that remained after the battle.