CALDER
This trip couldn’t have felt any longer. Rationally, I knew it was safer to travel the longer way so we wouldn’t have to answer any questions about Fifi and Vilairus. That still didn’t make being away from my pups and pack less challenging. Despite remaining optimistic, I could even see the toll it was taking on Remi. Vilairus even seemed to be getting slightly more irritated as time went on.
I was so relieved when Sammy stopped us early for the night and announced we would enter Initium first thing in the morning. After camp was set up, there was a weird energy as we sat around the fire eating dinner. Remi wasn’t her usual bright self, and Cullen was far more brooding than usual. Even Fifi seemed to be nervously trying to find something to say.
“Should we discuss how things wi
