Avalon's POV

I didn't sleep throughout last night.

How could I? I mean each time I closed my eyes, I saw her face, that exact moment in the doorway when she'd caught me with Valta. The expression on her face had haunted my dreams. I blinked as the first day of orange light shine directly on my face as I was facing the window with my back against the door where I had collapsed last night.

The bond was still there, a thread so thin I had to concentrate to feel it at all and through it, I could sense her, awake now, still in that bedroom with Osilus. The...