(Isla)
Inside the chest were several wrapped bundles, two books, and a small wooden case. Nothing looked valuable enough to explain why Darius had gone to so much trouble to protect it. I reached for the first bundle and carefully opened the cloth around it. A stack of letters rested inside.
My name was written across the first one.
I picked it up and recognized nothing about the handwriting. Still, knowing Darius had written those letters for me made my fingers pause against the paper. He'd prepared them believing there was a chance he wouldn't be there to give them to me himself.
"These are from him?" I asked. There had to be more than twenty letters in the bundle. Some were marked with numbers rather than dates. "He wrote all of these?"
Orin nodded. "Darius started writing them bef
