Allissa
We planned the hunt in the family war room with only the people we would trust over a cliff edge.
North was all we had. North, a boy’s pointing arm, and a pull he described like a rope tied behind his ribs, and every soul at that table had privately done the same brutal math. We needed him … Thorin was the one person who could find Lyra.
“A small party,” Darren said. “Fast, quiet, who can move without being seen. Whatever took her cut its own trail out of the sky. It will see an army coming a week away. It will expect an army. It will not see six. I will be part of the group, as well as my queen.”
“Majesty, the kingdom cannot risk both crowns on one road. The twins need their mother. Surely—”
“I buried that argument in a war,” I said. “If anyone wishes to dig it up, fetch a sh
