Chapter Thirty Eight

RPOV

Songs: Sweet Tides by Thievery Corporation, Apple Tree by Marika Hackman

Two and a half hours. That's how long a stupid maze made by even stupider Moroi takes. I was not only late for dinner, but I had missed it completely. Daniela left one of her ladies in waiting behind to tell me how disappointed she was and that if I should finally show up, I was to be sent to bed without dinner. It took everything within me to not strangle to the poor messenger.

I stalked back to my room, hungry, pissed, and exhausted. It was only a matter of minutes before my head hit my pillow and my body fell into a deep sleep.

My dreams were strange again. I was seeing through Lissa's eyes, living inside her mind as she spoke to someone beside her. Every once in a while she would look around and I saw little familiar details that told me we were in my chambers. Lissa and I had sat together in my room countless times as kids, but I couldn't remember being with someone like the person who joined her now. I