(Isla) Nobody spoke after Halvon answered. Three months wasn't long enough for Orin to disappear without leaving some kind of trail. If Halvon had seen him that recently, we had a real chance of finding him. I wanted to know why he'd stayed hidden when he knew I was alive. "Where did you see him?" I asked. Vaela remained close inside me, listening. We finally had someone who knew where Orin had been. I wasn't leaving without a location. Halvon rested his hands on the table. "North of here, beyond the western alliance border." He knew exactly where his father had gone. "He was living near a territory called Ravenspire." Pryor reached for one of the records. "Ravenspire isn't part of the western alliance." He searched several pages until he found it. "It's independent and rarely deals wi

