Elara's Pov
Spring returned to Silver Creek gentler than the year before, and with it came the first cohort of children gathered for what Selene had taken to calling, with the particular seriousness she brought to everything now, the Young Voices.
"Twelve of them," Ophelia said, watching the small group assemble in the Moonfall Clearing, ranging from barely five years old to almost twelve. "From six different territories. Corwin sent three of his grandchildren alone."
"That's a good sign," I said. "That he trusts this enough to send so many."
"He said something to me before they left," Ophelia added. "That teaching them young felt like finally giving Mira the childhood his own fear once cost fifty years of Hollow Pack children."
I felt the weight of that settle warm and heavy in my ch
