Attracted to him

We stopped conversing after that revelation. Tears had begun silently streaming down my face to think of my father sending an assassin to kill Queen Mortala.

It seemed there was more to war than I ever could have imagined. And for some reason I didn't even question Caliban when he accused my father of doing such a thing. Some part of me knew it was true and that he was capable of doing it.

And where was King Helios while Caliban's parents had been fighting on the field with their soldiers? He was safely sitting on his throne ordering others to do the work for him. Just like his fathers before him. It would be the same for whichever of my sisters had a son first and that boy took the throne.

Hours passed quietly and the longer we went without stopping the more my bottom began to hurt in the saddle. My entire lower back and legs were aching terribly, and I was desperate to stop.

It didn't make matters any better when the air around only got tremendously colder the deeper that we got int