Ame stopped, hands to her head. "Of all the gods-forsaken things that had to happen to me, I've got to decide HIS loyalty too?!"
She unblocked herself, sent out a thread of her magic. "What we need to do then is get Aery out of Calaculla. She's a Silverheart, the next in line to the throne after Hollin Havilliard. Well, Hollin was killed, and Aery's brother was the one on the throne. She killed him, because he was wearing the uniform of the men who'd tortured her. So Aery's [i]technically[/i] Queen of Adarlan. And she's got her signet necklace to prove it. Of course, right now, she can't even function as a human being, much less as a queen of a broken empire. So... Now what?"