Natalie The next ten days drifted by too quickly. My eyes opened slowly, finding the light streaming around the curtains. A small jolt of panic shot through me. Twelve days. Twelve days left to find Crux. The wolves had captured twenty vampires in the time and questioned them all to death. They only learned that Morga did not live in the northwestern realm. She resided in the northeastern realm. Not a big surprise considering that’s where the army she was trying to unearth most likely was. We were going there today, the group of us, to see if we could find anything. I glanced at Cass, who for once actually slept. He hardly ever did as far as I could tell. Sometimes I would wake up in the night and find him reading. The books about the dark elves or the lore that River had brought regard

