Then I decided it was time I stopped waiting for Griff Gareson to find me first. I ran after him and said it. All of it. That I’d forsake my duty for him, but I couldn’t ask that of him for me. That he was, as Mabalena had put it, the sunlight in my darkness, that I would remember him always, my king across the sea, and I hoped he’d find happiness with whomever he made his queen.
