Aaron— I know, I know, he snapped, I’m going. He grabbed hold of a couple of protruding stones to the side of the window and then, cursing himself for a fool, jumped. There was a stomach lurching, heart wrenching, wild-eyed scared as shit moment when his feet were touching nothing but air. He breathed a heavy sigh of relief when they hit the castle, and he managed to get a toe hold on the stones. What I was going to say, the Virtue said, was that you could have taken the stairs. Aaron laughed then, and if it sounded a bit wild, a bit like a scream, then that was understandable, given the
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