However, this thought felt a bit like sacrilege in her mind. How could she doubt her lord? It must be this place. End had stripped too much from her, and until they left this place, she could not trust her judgment.
"I'm sorry," Circe said to Rowan, and her voice was very small. "I have been dreaming of you."
"I know," Rowan said.
"You do?"
"In the distant past, I believed I had been sending the dreams. Still, that was so long ago, I thought I had dreamt it. Thank you for confirming that it was not just a dream."
Circe went very still. "It is the least I could do. I brought the dreams to Eos, and many changes happened in Existence due to it. With this dream, I think the future became shaped by it, although I don't know how Eos had used it."
Rowan tilted his head in his small, considering way.
"He used it the way it should. I know myself, and among all things, we are ruthless to our enemies, but that is nothing to our ruthlessness to our own selves," he said.
