Lenora's POV
Four weeks after the bridge gathering, Tola's rider arrived from Verath.
The message was short: She's stopped moving. Safe house, Ashglen mountains. She's building again. I have a name.
The name at the bottom of Tola's message made everything I'd understood about the last three years rearrange itself.
I took the message to Bramwell.
He read it. Set it down.
Picked it up and read it again.
Set it down again.
"Kellan Brosse," he said. "The guardsman Senna identified setting the fire."
"Who was supposed to be in custody," I said. "Who appeared in the custody records as detained and transferred to the northern holding facility after the inquiry."
"But was apparently not there."
"He's with her," I said. "He's the young companion. The one who watches her like something pe
