“How did you first meet her?” The more he told, the more she itched with curiosity. She wanted to know everything, and for the first time in her life, all of her questions were being answered.
“My first trip to Dogwood,” Torin said, and a smile spread across his face. “I knew who she was, I knew who all of them were, but we were told never to engage them. We were to keep our distance, investigate their grove only when we knew it would be safe, and watch for two things above all else.”
“What?”
“We needed to know if the people of Dogwood had discovered their secrets,” Torin said. “If their secrets were revealed, it would mean a dangerous level of exposure, not just for them, but for us. We may have been a world away, but the wall between the worlds is thin in Aurora Hollow, as our furry f
