(Isla)
Zeron returned with Elena and Orin several minutes later. Pryor came behind them carrying the wooden case, then placed it on the table between us. Sorin stared at the mark carved into it. I saw recognition come over his face.
"You've seen that before," I said. "Not the Keeper symbol on the marker, but this one." I pointed toward the case. "Where?"
"Near the path I found seventeen years ago," Sorin answered. "It was carved into a tree close to the stone marker." He looked at Elena. "I never learned what it meant."
Elena told him it belonged to Mara's Keeper line. Her mother had given her the case after returning from her own northern journey. Sorin listened while she explained what little her mother had told her. Then Pryor brought out the pages we'd already found inside.
Sorin
