Coldstrom feels his bond with Elizabeth disappear immediately she steps onto Martis's hidden property. When he Stitches into his chambers, he immediately knows that something is wrong. The first thing he notices is the deathly silence of his chambers and then there is the marked absence of life where Elizabeth should be. He tastes real fear for the first time in ages and his heart plunges into his stomach. His initial thought is that they got to her again. He can feel his hold on his sanity quickly unraveling and he Stitches from his bedroom to each and everyone of his adjoining chambers, hanging onto a dogged useless hope that she will be somewhere, anywhere in here. "Elizabeth!" He yells her name as he Stitches into each chamber and at the end, he is right where he started with not a

