Chapter 119

Where have you been?” Rhobart asked Ayla. His eyes fell on her left arm. The sleeve of her white tunic had blood on it. And dust. “You are hurt? And why are your clothes dirty?”

“I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to go on a walk. I must have scratched myself with something,” Ayla tried to lie.

Rhobart folded his arms over his chest. “Why do I have the feeling you are not being honest?”

Ayla licked her lips nervously. “Could we, perhaps, talk about this in our room?” she asked, not wanting to have an argument with Rhobart in front of Atlas and Zell.

“Don’t mind us. We were on our way to see our griffins. It just happened that we stumbled upon a very frenzied Rhobart,” Atlas explained.

“I was not in a frenzy,” Rhobart protested. “Maybe a bit worried for my woman, who was supposed to be sleeping next to me, but instead, went Inoss knows where.”

“As I said, I was… just taking a walk,” Ayla huffed.

Atlas looked over Ayla’s shoulder, squinting his eyes. “Is that the twins?”

Ayla clo