CH24

With Vaughan's cousins standing either side of Fenryn and Elena, the two sat within the viewing stand, away from the large gathering of people below them. Elena seemed about as nervous as Fenryn felt, though he masked his own feelings far better. Truthfully, he wished he could be down there with all the other knights, participating in the tournament, or at the very least helping to run it like he once did before he became King.

He could feel the burning gaze of Sethis upon him from somewhere nearby. Fenryn was at least thankful, that only a few select groups of people could sit up there with him. There had been placed a third chair beside his own, one reserved for the Queen mother. He had yet to see her but knew she had been fit enough to visit Sethis at some point or other. Vaughan had told him, that she had planned to join him, but so far there had been no sign of her.

His attempts to shift his mind from Sethis only served to make Fenryn's anxiety stronger, however.