She asked, “Who is Leander? And why is Morgan afraid of him? And what’s this about a Queen?”
She thought she heard an aggravated exhalation, but couldn’t be sure. The throbbing beat of drums drowned it out.
“Leander is the Alpha from another colony. Most of the members of his colony in England have already relocated here due to the threats against us, but he and the Queen and a few final families were left. The Queen is exactly what she sounds like: a Queen. The most powerful one of all the Ikati. Who apparently is missing.”
They were moving quickly through the trees, passing house after ingenious tree house, following the network of bridges deeper into the forest. Jack was too busy trying to keep up to spend too much time marveling at the beauty of it all. She jerked away from the le
