Chapter 27

I make my way over to Delilah as I’m coming the elders are leaving. I let myself in and call out to Delilah I throw myself on her lounge and she walks in and does the same.

“How are you holding up and I’m not asking you as the high priestess but I’m asking as your friend how is Delilah holding up it’s been an intense 48 hours”

She lets out a sigh and looks up at the ceiling.

“It’s hard work but I’m coping I’ve trained my whole life for this moment yet I feel so unprepared. Add a move and grief into the mix im feeling a little flat” she perks up a little and looks at me

“But you my girl are glowing” she sends me a wink and I feel my face redden she knows I wonder if she know with whom.

“New moisturiser” I laugh and she laughs with me.

“Keep your secrets if you don’t want to kiss and tell that’s fine but I have other ways to find these things out.”

“Dont you dare want to take twenty minutes time out and go to the base for a while I haven’t been there in a while and all that’s hap