Aiden said furiously as he paced his study. “There be a man, badly beaten, statin Skye be a spy an yet she risked her own life to ensure the bairn’s life. I doona ken how this makes sense.”He wished he could speak to Skye, but she’d been given laudanum to help her sleep and keep the nightmares at bay. He thought of how he held her throughout the night, how he had laid there with the fire casting a glow over them and he watched while the damaged skin from the rats and bugs had disappeared as her body repaired itself.Collin sat with his hands clasped on his knees nodding in agreement. “Ye need to talk to the lass.”“I have tried, man. Think ye I have no?”“Tis different this time.” Collin assured him.“How? I have the counsel elders pesterin me to make an example of the lass an questionin me authority every minute I doona!”“She has had nothin but fear. Take her fear away an mayhap she will open up.”Aiden paused, hand to chin in thought. “Take her fear away.”“Show her she be no alone.”A smile grew, lighting his eyes for the first time in many days.Standing tall, he chuckled.
