Silver Frost - Kailin Gow

Author:Bitter Frost
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-02-22T12:44:51.680000+00:00

Chapter 12

It had come time for us to say goodbye. In those awful few hours since I had agreed to part from Kian forever, we had not even spoken to each other. We had allowed our eyes to meet only once – by accident as much as out of necessity – and not ten seconds had passed before the agony had become too great to bear and we had retreated into silence and coldness once more. I knew he was not angry with me – he could not be angry with me – and yet his silence felt like anger to me, as cold and raging as fury. Even the slow, soft telepathic connection between us – the sense of connectedness that linked us even when we were in the same room – the sense that we were not two people but rather one ecstatic and indivisible whole, had vanished. I couldn't even feel his pain.

But I could feel mine. I felt as if a part of myself had been cut off, as if there was within my soul a hole so gaping and empty that the whole world could pass through it and still I would not feel a thing.

We had continued the evening in somber silence. The Queen had served us a small dinner – marking Kian's return with none of the pomp and splendor that had defined Shasta's homecoming, and informed us that she had made up beds in the guest tower for all of us; she was waiting for our departure on the morrow. “The next time we see each other,” she said, “It will be when we sign the treaty for peace.” Even in the profound plummets of my misery her words gave me hope. It would be worth it, wouldn't it? If peace could be brokered between the Winter and the Summer Courts, then surely one love, one life, didn't matter? Surely my own pain was nothing compared to the pain of my people – what I would be making them suffer if I refused to leave Kian alone. I knew the violence that would follow our union. Wort would round up his supporters and have me deposed; I imagined some villainous traitor on the Winter side would do much the same. And they would use the war to their own ends, consolidating their power even as people died on all sides, covering the mountains and hills of Feyland.

At last, after dinner, Kian came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder. His touch was magnetic, sending shivers through me. “Walk with me, Breena,” he said, his voice low and soft with love. “Let us go together. We have a few hours...”

Before we were parted forever.

“It will only make it harder,” I said, swallowing hard. I didn't want to be reminded of what I was missing, of the man I would never wake up next to, whose children I would never bear. I wanted only to close my eyes, squeeze out the tears, and forget.

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