The Ending

Sophia's POV

I did not bring him back that day.

This was the right decision, and I knew it the moment I made it — standing in the clearing in the November cold, looking at this man who was new and who needed to remain new for a little longer before the full weight of what he was to me was introduced into the space between us. He had said he would like to know me. I had said I would help him remember. What he did not yet need was to be brought immediately into a castle and a court ...