LUCIEN’S POVThey chorused “We are.”“Alright, listen Malcolm has been around for a while but he has been in the shadows so none of the kingdoms bothered to find and fight him, not until he took up the desire of invasion a couple of months back. And because of this, I know Malcolm too well, I understand that as long as you're not close to him, you won't know what is on his mind, or his next line of action, and there's no way his plan can leak, so I sent a spy.” There was a brief pause, waiting for the first words to sink in before I continued.“I sent my beta. First I condemned him to a common criminal and made it look like he had many reasons to have my head and so Malcolm embraced him. Malcolm loves people who are filled with hate. He feeds this hatred in them, manipulating their hearts with what will make them hate the person in question forever and loyal to him, and make them think, he is out to give justice for them or fight their battle.”There were murmurs as I was explain

EMILY'S POV I climbed into his arms and he gave me a tight snuggle kissing my hair.“Oh my, since when did you get tired of my lips." I teased him but he was not smiling much, he only give me a faint grin.It was depressing to see him in such a way and pretend nothing was wrong. I wish all this could end already.“You are not worried I’ll be leaving tomorrow after just seeing you tonight? It's long we’ve been close together like this and I'll be leaving again tomorrow morning." He was breathing slowly asking with pensiveness in his voice.“I will be fine and cope very well but if you are not careful you can not cope with the way you put the whole burden on yourself in deep thinking. My concern is how’d that you stay safe in this journey and that you stop thinking too much, just enjoy this moment." My voice was low almost like a whisper.“I will try but I… may not be able to do anything. I am so tired.”"Me too. I don't want to do anything either. I just want to sleep in your arms."

EMILY'S POVThe general came to me. “My Luna, why are we stopping? The city is just a few more steps away. There is no need to stop."He was beginning to worry about my usual attitude and I knew it.“Calm your spirit. I am aware that you find this odd but I think we need to check the kingdom first before we move in. Something in me tells me there is a problem.”"My Luna I doubt if there is any such thing. You are only overreacting, that is what I think, maybe because you left for some time.” I looked at him. He was making sense to a point but the anxiety did not leave me, so I decided to just go and check." The stealth team chief, one other general, and I will go and check it out. Keep the rest safe while we check things out.” He bowed and left. The stealth team Chief joined me immediately.I told him my suspicions, he did not doubt me nor did he agree either but he did not object to tagging along with me to check things. We took the down path and we were hurrying so that by dawn

LUCIEN'S POV I hurriedly pursued him.He began to throw the people walking around at me. I dodged them and continued pursuing him. A river in the distance. As we were getting close, I saw… it was a sea and not a river. And he was not stopping.I increased my pace to grab him before he jumped. But the second I grabbed his garment, he jumped and his clothes tore. I tried to stop but I was not able to stop myself, my body fell into the water.I tried to get out of the water myself, but someone let down his hand, I took it and he lifted me from the water.“Sorry, we were too far out to get to you on time." " I understand,” I said taking off my cloak."He is a mad wolf. He jumped into this sea better to die than let us catch him." Maiz said scornfully."No, he did it because he knew he was not gonna die. That sea leads out to the woods of the witches and that is his main destination. We will have to follow and find him before he finds his witch. That's the only way we can truly evade

EMILY'S POV “My Luna, the bastard has spilled everything he knows. You have all the information you need now.”I turned and looked at the wolf, he bowed his hands reddened with the enemy's blood."That was fast. I find that very commendable, Dion Wright. You will be very much rewarded for your diligence.” I patted his back.He bowed, and I walked past him to the side of the trees where the half-dead guard was lying with his eyes open and pleading with the monsters beside him to stop beating him.“That's enough boys. He has given us all the information we need already." They looked towards me and bowed." What should we do with him, my Luna?”" Waste him. I have no use for keeping a wolf who dares to side with the enemy.”They smirked, their eyes running back to the shivering wolf. He pleaded screaming back at me to let him live but I was not interested in doing such, plus the wolves wanted something to eat so I had to give them something and he came at the right time.Dion was waitin