Chapter 152: Dear Dahlia
After speaking to Heather, I continued reading my scrolls and by the time I had finished, it was almost evening and I was starting to get hungry. Heather helped me up and I stifled a yawn as I allowed Heather to lead m e towards the bedroom. On pushing the door open I met Ivana who was busy sitting on the bed, doing absolutely nothing other than sitting. She didn’t even look up when we entered. Her hands were clasped firmly on her lap, her body still and her face looked puffy, like she had been crying.
Heather and I shared a look before we turned to look back at Ivana who sniffed, wiping the back of her nose with her hand. I immediately nudged Heather who looked at me and I shoved her towards Ivana. She gave me a look but I just glared at her in response.
She had no right to have spoken Ivana that way. Even if we were equal in the eyes of the sisters of the light, there still need to be some balance between us. It is true Ivana might have been whiny but she does not deserve the brutal words Heather had told her. We had all been on the road together, exhausted and unclear as to what to expect. There was a place and time for honesty and who gets to say it, Heather doesn’t get to call Ivana out and drop it like that plunge the silence within a room.
Heather turned to look back at me and all I glared at her. Accepting her fate, she walked towards Ivana who finally looked up at her. Heather drew in a deep breath before she spoke.
"So it has come to my attention that I might have_" I cleared my throat loudly and Heather turned to look at me before she released a resigned sigh, "I may have been a little bit harsh and spoken out of turn. For that, I apologize to my lady."
Ivana didn’t say anything but Heather already apologized just like I had wanted her to do and that was fine by me.
"Do you really mean that?" Ivana asked.
Heather stared at her for a minute before she replied, "No, not really. But I transferred my aggression towards you, all that anger I’ve felt for years, I just took it out on you and it’s not something that I should have done. So I deeply apologize."
Ivana did the strangest thing and she chuckled at that moment. "You know I am not even angry about the whole thing anymore. I already spoke with the keeper."
That immediately caught my interest, I shuffled forward and went to go and join her on the bed. I knew those two guards from earlier that had called her had not been for nothing. I was going to ask her about what it was but it turned out the keeper was the one who had summoned her and now I was interested in what the keeper told her.
"So what did she say?" I asked, unable to hide the curiosity in my tone.