(Isla)
I stayed in Caius's office after Zeron and Pryor left. The map remained on the desk between us, and my eyes kept returning to the name written across it. Silvermere had meant nothing to me until we found the map. Now I knew I had been meant to grow up there.
Vaela had been quiet through most of the conversation. I could feel her thinking about everything Zeron had told us. There were wolves beyond the northern mountains who might know what happened before I was taken to Ashcrest. They might even know something about the family I came from.
'We need to go,' Vaela said.
'I know.'
'They may know what happened.'
'That's what I'm hoping.'
Caius came around the desk and stopped beside me. I looked up at him, knowing he had just as many questions as I did. Neither of us knew what we
