I haven’t had a moment to myself since I was ten years old.” Lord Soren stood up, took a small blanket off the back of the nearest chair, walked up to Arland, and draped it over his nephew’s head like a hood. Okay. She hadn’t encountered that before. “He is giving me a mourning shroud,” Arland said and pulled the blanket off his head. “Like the mourners wear at funerals.” “So you may lament the tragic loss of your youth,” Soren said.

