Aneryn beside him, arms folded across her chest. “You really thought you could leave without me?” She scolded Rua over her heavy, glowing blue eyes. “Me?” “I suppose not.” Rua chuckled. “We would have sent word back for the rest of you. I figured you would want to rest first. When you told me that you couldn’t See Augutus Norwood, I panicked. I just . . . needed to get out of this place. I wanted to go—” Rua didn’t finish the thought, though they all seemed to know what she was about to say: home. She wanted to go home. Murreneir was the first time she felt like she was free to be herself.
