Chapter 37: Difficult Questions

Oksana

After three long days of traveling, Oksana was thoroughly exhausted when they arrived at the city limits. She, Assar, and the tamer Vadim had managed to sneak into the city relatively unnoticed. The journey back hadn’t been very eventful, thankfully. They had only been attacked once, and thankfully Assar’s crossbow had taken the barrow beast down in one expert shot through the eye.

The entire journey back she had been nearly completely lost in her thoughts. Two topics had dominated her mind. One, the fact that her brother had betrayed her and their entire clan. Two, the growing affection she had for Assar. And she couldn’t decide which was more shocking to her.