HEINA"For not trusting our friendship enough. For not trusting you enough. I am so sorry, Irana. I should have done better. Said better. Be better. I shouldn't have bailed on you and your brother after everything you've both done, including getting hurt, to protect and defend me. Just like you did today." I added that last statement quietly.

She kept her gaze coolly on me. Unblinking. Unsmiling. Unchanging. Silence stretched, Aslan was also anticipating his sister's next words.

"On one...no, ...