(Isla)
Elara reached into the wooden box and removed a folded piece of parchment. She opened it with care and placed it in front of me. Writing covered most of the page, with a date across the top. It was the same date recorded beside my disappearance.
"Who wrote this?"
Elara pointed toward the bottom of the page. A name had been written there that I didn't recognize. I leaned closer to read it. Mara Voss.
"Who was she?" Caius asked.
Elara looked at the record before answering him. Mara had been one of the two wolves chosen to bring me to Silvermere. She knew about the divided circle and why I needed protection. My parents had trusted her.
"Then she saw me?"
"Yes."
"That day?"
"She was there."
I looked down at the first line. Mara had met my parents at a small settlement south of
