Heila felt the weight of a dozen pairs of eyes as soon as she stepped into the command tent, and for a moment, she had to resist the urge to turn around and leave, or to blurt out that Lady Ashlynn or someone who was actually important and capable would be here soon.
She had followed Lady Ashlynn for months and in that time, she had transformed so completely that her current self was almost completely unrecognizable to the simple serving girl she'd been less than a year ago. Yet in all that time, she had yet to truly understand what it meant for Ashlynn to be Nyrielle's Seneschal until now.
