The day of the banquet was finally here. Layla kissed Cassias goodbye and told him that she would return the next day. It was a half a day's ride by horse to get to the Moonbane fort. But Layla knew that it was only a couple of hours when in wolf form. She could cut through the woods as a wolf that she could not by horse or by carriage. But her father did not shift and she did not want to worry about having a change of clothes so they went together with an extremely reluctant Tabitha.
She was very nervous. It had been so long since she was face to face with the Riverwalkers and after she met Solomon's little brother Simon, she wasn't optimistic that it would go well. She was anxious to see what Saraiah wanted with her. She wished that her body hadn't changed as much as it had after being
