Chapter 1240 Stay Another Day

• Naomi
• Wren shrugs for probably the hundredth time, but I’m already upright and pushing my stool under the table, abandoning my half-consumed wine and my nearly empty plate and quietly following his fading footfalls through the spider web of corridors. I come to a steep, wide staircase in an area of the castle I’m unfamiliar with, and with no other options, I descend, careful to keep my steps light and silent.
• I’m unsure of my current trajectory in every sense of the term. We haven’t had a real conversation since he so rudely tossed me into the pool this morning, and finding him in his classroom teaching, well, I’d been thrown off my crusade in an instant, and he’d been swallowed by damage control, leaving me again to fend for myself.