Zephyr's eyes snapped open, coming in contact with the familiar woods he had been moments before the force took him away.
The scent of woods and leaves reached his nostril. Beneath his feet was the damp sticky soil. The rain now a dull patter against the floor. Yet they heard something.
The same familiar words, the one Valdez had said a moment ago when fading into the night echoed in his mind.
“You must discover the rest for yourself.”
A knot tightened Zephyr’s chest. His mind stirred. Everything he'd heard and seen earlier flooded in. The fights, the story about his father's clan, the story about Sinclair, and also Michael. The thought that he had been with his father all these while but never knew.
Zephyr's eyes stung, hot with unshed tears. He clasped his finger’s around the bark o
