Lillian Gray
King in the North
"Why?" She asked, the most vague question of them all. "Is that why I'm here? So he wouldn't kill me then?"
Adelaide propped her head on her knees and did her best not to cry again. The image of her father's head was stuck in her mind, it haunted her dreams when she slept, and haunted her thoughts when she was awake.
"I can't sleep, it's always there, my-" She held her hands in front of her and started to shake. "my father's-" Even now, she couldn't say it.
"Why did he want to kill me?"
Adelaide propped her head on her knees and did her best not to cry again. The image of her father's head was stuck in her mind, it haunted her dreams when she slept, and haunted her thoughts when she was awake.
"I can't sleep, it's always there, my-" She held her hands in front of her and started to shake. "my father's-" Even now, she couldn't say it.
"Why did he want to kill me?"