Chapter 113

Rafferty POV

It's been several months since Ava was taken to the witch’s sphere, and my binary family Treyton and I were growing decreasingly anxious about her. Despite our enterprises, we had to trust Lorna to cover her, indeed though we could not shake off the feeling that commodity was amiss.

Treyton, in particular, had come withdrawn and melancholic over the once month, and I tried my stylish to support him while also managing the area's affairs to help any dislocations. Meanwhile, Ava’s parents were getting a constant presence at the palace, arriving every day to interrogate about their son's whereabouts. I did my stylish to assure them that Ava was safe and would return soon, but their anxiety was palpable.

As I sat in the council room, gaping at the maps and reports spread out before me, I set up it hard to concentrate. My mind kept drifting back to Ava and the last time I saw her. Her gash- barred face visited my dreams, and I could not help but wonder if we had made the righ