Rohan slipped her bracelet into his pocket and then touched Angel's hair. "I'll be back with your mother. Stay with Evenly. Keep blood beside you for him," he told Evenly, and without waiting for anyone to speak again, Rohan went out through the window, opening his wings and flying into the gray sky.
Evenly watched the duke disappear into the heavy clouds, which seemed as if the heavens themselves knew blood was about to be shed in the lands and everything had turned gloomy. She had never been this worked up in all her life before, and Evenly clasped her hands together and silently prayed for the first time since losing her mother, who had always taken her to church, that they all would make it out unaffected.
