Chapter 80: Adelaide.

The guards refuse to let me in and for a moment I wonder if I'm just being paranoid.

Lyros wouldn't be that wicked would he?

I had to watch as he broke almost every bone in Cain's body and even now I can still imagine the amount of utter cruelty that must have gone into making himself able to do that.

The feeling of him breaking my fingers is like a faint memory now, but Cain's pain is recent. Lyros wouldn't hurt him so soon after that, would he?

The guard with light brown hair shoots me a sneer and I sneer back at him. They're the reason I can't go in to see for myself what's happening, yet they still manage to make me feel like I'm the problem.

I pick myself up from the floor and dust my hands by hitting them together. There are grains of sand on the floor and I know there will be more. I look up and put on my most complacent smile.

"Please, can I just go in to see Miss Leah?"

"No one goes in to see the healer. You can wait a day or two."

They sound like they haven't even broken a s