10 The Hidden Cave Emberley Blackwood, known by most simply as Ember, in large part due to the sparks she brought to nearly every situation in which she was invited, and also those she was not, awaited her brother’s arrival at The Hidden Cave without a shred of patience. Once she was certain Brandyn was on his way from the Sepulchre, she’d intended to share the plan with her sisters. Honestly, she had. Gabrianna would defer to her wisdom, as she typically did. Hollyn, on the other hand, wearied by her now long-term illness, never had time for whatever her younger sister had up her sleeves. Gabrianna would comfort her in her skepticism, Hollyn would rail in her protest, Gabrianna would cave and take her side for a spell, and then on it would go, until they finally acquiesced, but not bef

