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“I failed you. We all failed you... Failed the Realm...”
Adam’s words were choked out.
“Failed Genevieve.”
Damien’s heart, still exhilarated from his run across the country and his reclamation of Farivera, stilled from its wild beat. He had known. In some part of himself he had always known what he was coming home to find.
“Tomas Elsevier has her hostage, does he?”
Adam nodded without raising his head. “Her and...”
“Jason.”
Adam nodded again, eyes tightly shut, and with tears still leaking out. The Royal Guards he had brought with him down to the docks looked uncomfortably at this collapse of the stoically sarcastic man who had trained most of them. They were knights all and were not so far away from their days as squires under Adam’s sharp eye.
“And the city is under siege?” Damien asked. He hadn’t noticed any such thing as he ran down the surface of the rivers . But… he wasn’t sure he would have, immersed in his magick as he had been.
“What need?” Adam whispered bitterly. “Without any Alsterling to hold it, what were we to do but follow Tomas’ orders? With him holding...”