Changes in the Wind by Niranjan

Author:Niranjan [Krishnan, Geetha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Geetha Krishnan

“Can we trust him?” Asteria asked, and Gavril felt himself bristle though he tamped it down immediately. For one, these people didn’t know of his connection to Zathrian. For another, he had no call to take up cudgels on Zathrian’s behalf. He hardly knew the man, after all.

“I wish I could say yes,” Keres said, stopping in her pacing, and turning to where they sat around the large oval table.

When Keres had said she would attempt to contact Zathrian, Gavril hadn’t expected her to do that this quickly. She had refused to explain how, saying that it was arcane magic and can’t be used by everyone. It only whetted Gavril’s curiosity, especially since he knew that she was being truthful, but for now he was ready to hold his peace.

“What if it’s a trap to capture us?” Aelric asked.

Gavril looked down at where his hands were clasped on the table. They had tightened so much without his volition, and he forced himself to relax. Things had become easier once everyone knew he wasn’t Vulir, but Gavril. He still had met with anger and hostility at first, but by the time their plan was in motion, there had been a grudging acceptance of his presence. Keres had told them everything except that he was Zathrian’s soulmate and had warned them to keep calling him Vulir. She had spun a tale about how Gavril had caught the emperor’s eye during his brief apprenticeship and so they had to keep his existence a secret for now.

None of them knew of his soulmark and their concerns were valid, so why was he getting angry when they voiced that?

He was grateful to Keres for keeping his secret, and no matter how much she’d tried to tell him to reveal himself to Zathrian, he just couldn’t. She had been concerned for Zathrian, but Gavril had been too afraid. At first he had fooled himself by saying he would do it soon, but he hadn’t, and the longer he’d waited, the harder it had become till even Keres had given up.

Everyone was used to calling him Vulir now, though they all knew he wasn’t. There were times when he felt like a thief- after all, he’d stolen Vulir’s body as well as his name. Still, he couldn’t bring himself to contact Zathrian or to tell him the truth. He hadn’t told anyone, not even Keres, of the accidental meeting he had with Zathrian weeks ago. It remained fresh in his memory, and he hoped the emperor would have moved on from all that by now. Zathrian didn’t deserve to suffer, but Gavril was too much of a coward to tell him the truth. If that wasn’t proof that Zathrian deserved better, he didn’t know what was.

The thought surprised him, even as he tuned out the conversation happening around him. Gavril had always had a healthy amount of self-respect and he had never thought of himself as not deserving of having a soulmate bond with the emperor. But

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