The Sentinels Too much sauce

Their beautiful moment of bonding ended abruptly when Skellige made his presence known. Larkspur immediately shrank back against the rear wall. The kindness he had shown these past few weeks was greatly overshadowed by the unearthed knowledge of what he had done to Spur herself as well as Mordecai. A deep pang went through her when she thought of her daddy. Then something altogether unfamiliar passed through the child's heart. Forgotten momentarily was her fear, her deference and even her affection for the pale witch Deirdre.

Trembling from head to toe, Spur shoved past both Deirdre and the guard at the door, angling toward the unwelcome guest as she screamed, "What did you do to my father?" Her eyes flashed meaningfully so that Skellige would make no mistake that she knew of his terrible lie and was asking about her true father. "Where is he?" she cried out again, shivering as this strange feeling—bravery, perhaps, or foolishness—seemed to electrify every nerve in her small, golden body. Nothing on this earth mattered more than her family, not even her own life.