Kane crushed the letter in his fist and threw it into the fire pit before anyone could stop him.
"That doesn't make it go away," Senna said, watching the paper curl black.
"No," Kane said. "But I'm not going to stand here and read their threats twice."
The group had gathered in the grain store within the hour, Reeve upright despite his wound, Cassius pale but present, Talyn, Ottilie, Fira, and Senna all crowded around the table where a rough map of the region lay spread out, Havenmere marked with a small circle east of Marrow Ridge territory.
"They know about the scar," Talyn said. "That means someone close to Lira's original ritual training is still tracking exactly what state your bond is in."
"Or they've had someone watching me directly," Kane said. "Long enough to know it never fu
