12. BeithIf your cousin was alive, we would have seen him.
The wizard’s words kept sounding over and over again in Branwyn’s mind. All day she had warred between this pronouncement and the voice in her own head that told her Andor was only lost, not dead. She knew it was blind hope. She had nothing tangible to support her belief, but she could not shake it.
“Andor is not dead,” she said aloud to the empty tent.
And as long as she believed that, she would not give up looking.
Branwyn got to her feet, though she was not sure what she was going to do. Rook and Signy were away helping Allan and Odmund with something, but maybe it was better that way. She was not sure if they would really help her or not. They would be kind, telling her to accept what the wizards had said, or telling her to
