Chapter 34 Swearing In

ARIA’S POV The next two weeks passed in a blur with intense training and a strange, unsettling silence from Kael. I did tell him to stay away but I didn’t expect him to listen to me. I mean, he never listens. He kept his distance, his interactions with me brief and very formal, as if trying to create a barrier between us. It was confusing and frustrating, but I pushed it aside, focusing on the trials that was ahead.