Chapter 34 Second Best

"It's impossible." His fingers bounced between the bars on the door as King Eli peeked through at his granddaughter. Just a shell of a woman, Tessa lay catatonic facing the wall humming to herself.

He shook his head and drew up his face in disbelief as he motioned to the blackened spaces Rafik and the guard once inhabited. "Look at her. She's pat