Chasm (The Glacian Trilogy, #2)

by Stacey McEwan

Goodness can hide amongst the bad, just as evil can wrap itself in righteousness.

“You want to know if I hated her. My mother. The answer is yes.” Dawsyn nods, and bites back the urge to ask why. Then, unbidden, “I loved her too, though,” she says, and a perceptible weight befalls the mage’s shoulders.

“But I can promise you this: the Queen wears a ring on her right hand with the Terrsaw Emblem. They say it was taken from King Sabar’s body the night he died. One day I will cut that ring from her finger, and it will sit on the mantle in your new home.”

“Ugh, they taste like all my sins coming back for repentance,”