Chapter 16

After a brief moment in the morning, Alcina doesn't get another chance to speak with Lord Brendan for the remainder of the day.

She'd hoped to catch him at dinner but finds that the man is entirely absent at dinner with little explanation.

For what she is looking for, the man, she hasn't yet planned; she just feels unsettled, as though there's an entire world left unsaid and unresolved, without any particularities thought out.

Alpha Warner simply explains that Brendan had claimed business he must attend elsewhere. 

Alcina noticed that Alpha Warner's rumors of growing absentmindedness had not been exaggerated.

It is no doubt true, then, that Lord Brendan must succeed his father's rule of the Western Plains in the next year, at best.

As it is, she spends the dinner mostly looking down at her plate, wondering where it is that Lord Brendan could have had such urgent business to attend to.

And when she catches herself with these