"Oh!" Anastasia was impressed. "But we don't know where Seraph is now. He never came with my aunt back to Vilinski, so it is possible that either he is dead or he doesn't agree with Etaya's plans. That's why he has chosen to stay inconspicuous."
"Or he is dead already," he conjectured.
"That is a probability."
He took a deep sigh and then lied down back on the towel. She rested her head back on his shoulder and they remained silent for a long time. He closed his eyes and put his arm over them. There was so much to think about. "You can't imagine how much I wanted to give you all the luxuries of the world, take you to all the places I have been." He gave a humorless chuckle. "But see? Here we are. In a cavern in Yelgra, biding our time so that things become fine back at Draoidh and Silver Vales. Do you think that will ever happen?"
