Chapter 52

ALEJANDRA.

As we are getting ready to leave, a few elders show up at the castle.

They try to talk me out of leaving. They try to tell me just how dangerous the outside world is. But I inform them that I, of all people, know just how dangerous it is. I have had threats on my life from the wolves—and they’re my own people. So I understand where they’re coming from.

The elders were alive to see what happened with the war firsthand. The fought alongside their friends and family. And they experienced loss like I never have. I couldn’t even imagine the horrors that they’ve been through.

The only loss I’ve experienced is when my mother’s parents died. I didn’t know them very well. We only saw them a handful of times throughout my life and I was only a small child when they passed away. I think I was barely old enough to understand what death was, I just knew it made my mom really sad.

But what the fae went through during the war—that is impossible to comprehend. Because ninety percent o