Cass We found Happy Hollow Road, as described by Count Chad, and we were now following it. Some of us treaded quietly, and some of us—Finn—stomped around like trolls in the forest. I wasn’t sure how many elves we would find at the end of the road, and they were certainly more substantial opponents than vampires, and I didn’t want my friends to be harmed. A stab of silver through their heart could end a wolf shifter, but I had to be killed with Dragonsbane steel, which was much rarer. I’d also recently learned that total dismemberment could kill a dragon when I watched it happen to one of my tormentors. Good times. Right now, the three brothers walked about a hundred feet behind me, and Kiera behind them. They were whispering amongst each other, as they had done in the past. I’d never

