Chapter 23 RESIGNED TO THE END OF EVERYTHING

— Kaden —

“On what?” Elaeya asked me.

I shook my head a couple of times. “Let’s just talk first, then we can make decisions.”

She gave me the barest of nods, but the rest of her body stayed a pure statue. Her back was perfectly ramrod straight, her hands laid on her lap, her head looking ahead, at probably nothing in particular. She looked like someone awaiting her execution, with a sort of empty stoicism, and resigned to the end of everything.

I...