Rhydian I wasn’t surprised to find both Wren and Opal up and awake and if the look on their faces was anything to go by, they had been expecting us. We slipped into their room, both me and Amara lost in thoughts about what we had just witnessed. Amaras face was unreadable, but I knew without asking that she would never go back to her own room now. She wouldn’t let me deal with this alone. We were a team. Me and Amara. No, I glanced into the faces of Opal and Wren, shifter royalty and I knew deep down that our little team of two was a team of four. “What’s the plan?” Opal asked quietly from her place sitting on the window seat. She was looking out onto the predawn garden her face serene and I could almost see the beautiful young woman she had been. Opal, the opal dragon and the neares

