She she didn't say anything she just stared lost in her thoughts Eira followed behind them feeling too weird to speak, the guards kept looking at each other .

No one said anything since they left the village .

Kieran’s chest hurt every time he thought of Keon and the way he fell on the floor , of the way Lyra gasped before she kept quiet. When he saw her eyes not angry, not broken just there and that haunted him more than anything .

He tried to tell himself he had done the right thing. He ...