Chapter 25

"Like many old supernaturals, Ally, there are some Krionas, the really old ones, who eschew modern technology."

"How do you communicate with them?"

"It's called a fire message. A few words are written with the sender's blood on a plain sheet of paper, addressing it to the receiver. The paper is then set on fire. If the recipient wishes to reply the message, the same procedure is used."

Conversation between Ally and Dahlia, the day of the town festival in Idris.

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ALLY’s POV

I thought I would be okay with walking away from him. I was sure it was the only way to keep moving. That it was what would be best for the both of us. That not seeing those cerulean eyes would make me concentrate on the matter at hand. How wrong I was.

The drive to the Gomez pack in Labrador was a two-day journey and we'd stopped in a motel to sleep and continued the next morning, the entire journey silent on my path as I tried to piece together all that I