She leaned forward, moving her head so she could glance up at him. “This is why you came.”
He dipped his chin in acknowledgement.
“What is it?” Kira asked, curiosity getting the better of her.
“I can’t tell you that.” His arms tightened at her glare. “It is one of the most closely guarded secrets of our race. If you are called, you will know then.”
Kira didn’t know if she liked that answer.
“It has something to do with the Mea’Ave,“ she said, watching his expression for clues.
To her disappointment, there were none.
Very well then. He could keep his secrets.
“If there is something I need to do, I will do it,” Kira promised him.
If it was this important to him, there was nothing she could do but listen and wait.
Graydon’s arms squeezed her in silent gratitude as they went back to watching the eerily beautiful sight.
They hadn’t been standing there long when the scrape of a shoe on the path behind them announced the fact they were no longer alone.
“Speak,” Graydon ordered.
“There is an issue,” Amila said.
Kira peeked around Graydon’s shoulder to nod a greeting at the oshota.
Amila sent her a gentle smile before focusing on Graydon. “There has been a break in at the prison.”
Tension invaded Graydon’s body.
“A prisoner escaped,” Amila continued, answering the question they could all feel hovering in the air.
“Don’t tell me,” Kira started.
“It was the general Roake captured during the uhva na,“ Amila confirmed.
Damn it. Kira had been afraid of that.
Graydon’s arms fell from Kira, the peaceful moment ruined at the unexpected intrusion of reality.
“I will go with you,” Kira told Graydon.
Aeron and everything to do with him was of concern to Kira. Particularly now that his allies had managed to break him out of a prison so secret that only a very few knew the location of it. A prison that until today had likely never seen an escape.
Graydon denied her with a shake of his head. “You cannot. Should you leave the adva ka, you will be considered to have withdrawn.”
It was on the tip of Kira’s tongue to tell him she didn’t care. Her main goal had been accomplished anyway.
The biggest thing stopping her was the certainty that Aeron’s escape wouldn’t be the end of things.
It could very well be that this was a feint designed to draw Kira’s attention away from the real plan.
The Tsavitee had employed such tactics many times before.
As Kira wavered, Graydon leaned forward to press a soft kiss on her forehead. “I need you here.”
