then whoever could have predicted that they’d get into the palace?” I stared at him as I tried to figure out if that was supposed to be some kind of threat. “I tried to save them, you know. Your father was my friend…” “I didn’t know The Savage King had friends,” I said, curious despite myself. If he’d been there the night my parents were killed, then maybe he would know who that boy was that Astrum had saved. “Perhaps he didn’t by the end.” I stared at Lionel, willing him to share more of what he knew with me, but it seemed he was done with this conversation. He shoved me away from him so that
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