(Caius)
The corridor was quiet at this hour. She walked beside me without hesitation and I matched her pace and said nothing because there was nothing that needed saying. The decision had been made and the words had been said and what came next was simply the walking toward it, which was sometimes the most important part of anything. Vorak was close to the surface and not doing a particularly good job of hiding it but he was holding and so was I.
The firelight from the lower hall stretched across the stone beneath our feet while Ashcrest settled deeper into the night around us. Most wolves had already returned to their quarters by now and the few guards still stationed through the corridors lowered their heads the second they saw us approaching. Isla noticed it. I felt the shift in her
