Chapter Thirty-Seven – Night Falls
“Mother,” Theodore implored, “that was the flint of Embercasting, I swear!”
Both his parents doted on him too much, but it was his mother who couldn’t bear to see him suffering, even over the most trivial things. However, even she seemed upset with him right now, and Theodore felt something he’d never felt before. He couldn’t name it, but it was as if his regret over being only a child intensified tenfold. How could he convince his mother that he’d st