A Granddaughter Before the Crowd
Then a thin and cracked voice spoke up from, near the back. The voice said "If you are his granddaughter…
So, where is he? Where is Sir Aden now?"
Alinas chest felt really tight. She had thought about what she was going to say times but it did not make it any easier to say it out loud. The air, in the square felt all of a sudden like everyone was waiting to hear what Alina was going to say.
She looked down a little. "He was alive this morning " she said in a voice. "He met with the ruler to make sure the people of Vel are safe."
A ripple went through the crowd. This was hope. It was fragile. It was desperate. The hope that people felt was really fragile and really desperate.
