SIX
Four days after her night with Daemon, Surreal caught
the Gray Wind and headed for Amdarh, intending to spend a few days
at the family’s town house. She had barely reached the town beyond
Halaway when she felt a pain in her abdomen—a pain more severe than
the worst moontime cramps she’d ever experienced. A pain so severe
she almost tumbled from the Gray Web.
Shaken, she dropped
from the Winds and waited for the pain to subside. Then she
continued on to Amdarh, riding the Green Winds.
A day after that,
just wearing her Gray Jewels caused her the same kind of pain as
trying to use her Gray power during her moontime, and even wearing
her Birthright Green made her queasy.
A day after that, she
used Craft without thinking and threw up on the sitting room
rug—and became so weak and dizzy, Helton found her lying in her own
vomit a few minutes later.
Helton panicked,
along with the rest of the town house’s staff, and Healers
converged on the SaDiablo residence, including Lady Zhara’s
personal Healer.
She answered all
their questions truthfully, except one.
Despite her protests
that it couldn’t have happened, every single Healer assured her
that it had.
So she stayed in bed
resting for a day, putting up with Helton’s fussing to make up for
scaring the man so badly.
For herself, she was
excited—and she was scared.
And she was terrified
of what would happen when she told Sadi.