(Cassian)
I knew Kiara had made it out when Lysander returned before sunrise. He came into my room and closed the door behind him. I had spent the night wondering if something had gone wrong after I left her. The look on his face gave me the answer I needed.
"She crossed?" I asked. "No one saw her?" Ronan had been restless since Kiara and I separated. I needed to know she was away from Blackridge.
"She crossed." Lysander sat across from me. "The western patrol didn't report anything unusual. Nobody knows she left that way."
Kiara would be somewhere west of Blackridge by now. I hated not knowing exactly where she was, but that was safer for her. If father questioned me, I couldn't tell him where she had gone. All I could do was hope she kept moving.
‘She is away from our father,’ Ronan
