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No enee None left without his permission

I knee’d passed beyond Lucien’s known ged

Mine were sluslid into a different, deeper rhyth, but without the ability to shield, to sense any danger …

I wondered if Rhys was looking for e out Told hi and how to find me

The faebane--that hy the bond had sounded so ht

But as done was done

I was rubbing ata moment’s rest beneath our new bounty: an apple tree, laden with fat, succulent fruit

I’d filledhat I could fit inside Two cores already lay discarded besideof the bees gorging themselves on fallen apples A third apple was already pris

After what the Hybern royals had done, I should have sworn off apples forever, but hunger had always blurred lines fora few feet away, chucked his fourth apple into the bushes as I bit into mine "The farmlands and fields are near," he announced "We’ll have to stay out of sight My father doesn’t pay well for his crops, and the land-workers will earn any extra coin they can"

"Even selling out the location of one of the High Lord’s sons?"

"Especially that way"

"They didn’t like you?"

His jaw tightened "As the youngest of seven sons, I wasn’t particularly needed or wanted Perhaps it was a good thing I was able to study for longer thanthem out the door to rule over so as I liked, since no one believed I’d be du list of heirs And when I grew bored with studying and fighting … I learned what I could of the land from its people Learned about the people, too"

He eased to his feet with a groan, his unbound hair gli as the low

"I’d say that sounds h-Lord-like than the life of an idle, unwanted son"

A long, steely look "Did you think it was mere hatred that prompted my brothers to do their best to break and kill me?"