XXIV

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Rosalie

“Tell me everything.” Alexander has shifted back into his wolf, and instructed me to get on his back. He had taken me as far away from the little farm cottage as possible, before stopping in a particularly sparse area of heathland. Perhaps thinking it was easier to see intruders coming.

He had ordered his men to keep watch around us. He wasn’t taking any chances with my being taken again. And from where we sat, we could see each of them keeping watch, running the perimeter.

I told him everything that had transpired. From being taken by the sprites, to Morag and her strange ways and parting message, to finding Nina in the Goddesses woods. Telling Alexander he had lost yet another sibling that he never even knew he had, was the hardest part of it all.

He had grown quiet beside me. Perhaps trying to process everything I had told him.

“I knew my mother was a great se’er. But I had no idea just how much weight she bore. She would have seen everything coming, and then had