Chapter 79 – Zélie
Inan’s amber eyes trap me in the truth of his betrayal, but it isn’t the gaze I
know. He’s a stranger. A soldier. The shell of the little prince.

I can fell Zelie building her walls back towards Inan. She sees a different person to the one she met at the maji camp, she sees a man without a soul, a soldier. Just a shell of the man she once knew.

Note: It is interesting to think about how Zélie became an empty “shell” after Saran
tortured her. After talking with Saran, Inan became a shell, also.
Thinking back to when Inan said they had no choice but to kill the maji.
Zélie said, “There’s always a choice.”