Chapter 40

Her words failed her.

She stood at the threshold of the room hoping the image of him would vaporize and she would find out that it was only her imagination that conjured him there. But when he reached for a lamp and turned it on to illuminate the room she knew he wasn’t just a fragment of her imagination. Her father, king Barigo of Eyrotia was indeed sitting on her bed. If she wasn’t so afraid of him she would notice that his expression was not one of anger, rather he was trying not to show too much concern. Since his visit to the seer, he found himself questioning his actions towards her. If the seer claimed that she was not to bring retribution on him then she was not his enemy. Her only crime was being born in the first place, she didn’t deserve to be treated cruelly for that. As he waited for her to show up in her room all evening fought with his conscience, and his conscience told him that Herentik would not have been happy with how he was treating her child. For whatev