Chapter 62

• Even after the chaos in the coven calmed down, I still could not find it in me to pursue our personal business. It was heartbreaking enough for me to learn how Phaedra lost her sister just recently and how it affected her, and now she lay unconscious, almost burnt to ashes—almost following her sister and almost abandoning their mother.
• My elbows rested on my legs as I waited in the large hut, my hands tightly clasped together. Xiao stood not far away from me, looking out the window with his hands on his back. The woman, the High Priestess, had never left Phaedra’s side. Leaving us to find another way to carefully talk to her in private.
• “I should go there and tell her,” I said. I was well aware my curt statement did not need additional information because it’s Xiao I’m talking to.