“Alena. We’ve slept back-to-back in the rain. You’ve held my hair back when I was sick from a cursed wound. I stole the Crown of Stars for you, and you gave it to a merchant for a horse we rode for two days before it broke a leg.”
She turned and walked toward the broken archway that led to the outer stair. The others followed—Kael limping, Elara helping Finn, who was starting to shiver. No one looked back. yuusha ni minna