Four hours ago, Garrett called him a shark while he threw a rubber ball at the ceiling.
Right now, the shark was standing in a doorframe unable to move because the person who was dying was someone he had no reason to grieve. Grateful, yes. Gavriel Sterling had saved his life in an act of courage Fin would never forget. But debt and grief were different currencies, and the grief sitting in his stomach was heavier than anything he'd felt for Guinevere, his own cousin, who was scheduled to die.
The math was so broken he stopped trying to solve it.
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SHADOWCLAW - FOUR HOURS PRIOR
Fin's study in Shadowclaw was the one room in the castle where the king stopped being a king and started being a man with too many problems and a rubber ball he threw at the ceiling when he was thinking.
"I still don't like that Agnes is hiding it from you. Why doesn't she just tell you?"
