Chapter 246 I Was Coming Back

• [XENA]
• By the time I return from the prison cells, my anger has begun settling into restlessness.
• The rush of confronting Lady Mara and Oriel has faded, leaving too much room for my thoughts to catch up. I pace my chambers once before forcing myself to sit beside the window with a book, instead. The book about stolen wolves. But it doesn’t help. My mind keeps circling back to the same impossible wish—severance.