Aries pov:
Seeing them all bow to Rex stirred something in me I couldn’t quite explain—a swelling pride and a deeper pull toward the bond that had only recently begun to form between us. I had no idea who these people were or why my instincts pushed me to feel connected to them, but the green in their hair was proof enough. they were from the Banished Tribe. Her people.
Still, my attention wasn’t just on them. What mattered was Julian. He had come with them… yet he refused to enter alongside them. Why? I was just about to mindlink him when one of the strangers called Rex a name I didn’t recognize. A strange word, foreign on their tongue but spoken with reverence.
“Elegida,” my mother translated gently from beside me. “It means the chosen one''
After Rex put the stranger who dared to qu
