Neverwinter Forest divine wisdom

her father shared empty words of encouragement that didn’t help to soothe her anymore than the bristling autumn winds. she paused, taking a moment to watch him carry away some rotting branch. is amma going to come back? yana asked, voice low and chilled, moses didn’t come back.


not expecting an immediate response, or any response at all given her opinion of mal, liliana went back to her tending of the altar. different thoughts continued to stream through her mind despite her active work to keep them out.


finally, after not being able to hold it in any longer, liliana asked, are you going to get rid of me, too? because mal was the common denominator, wasn’t he? neverwinter was his pack; all of these women were his wives; and the children, to their best knowledge, had all blossomed from his seed.


surely, then, that meant that he was the reason everyone kept disappearing. and without her mother or brother, yana knew that her time was drawing near.