Senna passed away on the fourteenth day.
Not as Morwen had. Morwen’s end had come in an instant during the transfer, her life departing alongside the seal. Senna’s death arrived gradually. She spent her final days in the small chamber beside the main staircase that Aldric had converted into a sleeping room for her. A bedroll rested near a low-burning fire. Aldric sat at one side. Aria remained at the other. Kael often stood quietly in the doorway.
Her strength had begun fading on the seventh day after they reached the headland.
The journey had taken exactly what she knew it would.
It had been enough.
She had lived long enough to see Aria established in the chair. Long enough to watch Morwen laid to rest overlooking the sea. Long enough to know that the message had been sent to Cress o
