Chapter 290 – Been a while
"I promised to wait for them, but I can no longer, unfortunately," Kaden muttered under his breath, thinking of both Meris and Inara as he sat cross-legged on a cloud of crimson-gold flame, tainted with countless hues like freckles upon a face, floating slightly above the ground.
Meris and Inara had gone back to Fokay for their advancement quest two months after that starry night. They still, after all, needed to aid their respective mothers and families before departing again.
So it had been two months already, and neither of them had yet returned. To say Kaden was not worried would be an understatement on the level of saying the sun was warm.
He was worried in a way he never thought possible, not for family, but for others. Meris was understandable, she was his fiancée and soon-to-be wife. But Inara…
