Chapter 279: Best Behavior, Burning Gazes, and the Child Who Refused to Be Scared
Elyn's POV
I blinked at Zorathys.
Surely I had heard him wrong. There was no way those words had just come out of his mouth, right?
"What?" I asked, just to be certain I had not been hearing things.
Zorathys didn't reply.
He just turned back to the children, his ruby eyes sweeping across their small faces with an expression that hovered somewhere between mild disgust and reluctant acceptance.
"The pests are complete," he announced, as though he were confirming the arrival of a shipment he had not ordered and did not want. "And though I hate that you are here—" he paused, his gaze flicking to me for the briefest moment, "—I must let you come with us. Because Firefly wants you to come with us. It should be of note that that's the only reason you all are even in the palace."
The children exchanged glances.
