Chapter 37

Blanche was laid asleep beside me on the large bed, no one coming to retrieve her when she quickly became drained from the vast amounts of training we faced; pushing our bodies to the limit.

She had fallen into a deep slumber a few hours ago, her breathing slow and relaxed. We had been practicing our individual powers for hours, I had managed to shift into a bat five times before I grew too tired and got a nose bleed; my mind growing weak and slow. But I had still done it, yes; I only held it for a few moments each time, but it was a start.

One that I could be proud of. Surely the prince would know this, he would realise how hard we are working on our abilities for him, how much I wished to make him proud of me.

Yet, I didn’t know for sure, he had gone out of my range so that I could not hear him any longer, nor sense him within the city; our link weaker when he was gone. No one had told me he was leaving, not eve