"Assuming Wren's right," Rhys said, once the initial weight of the idea had settled enough for practical planning to begin, "we still need to find Serrin before we can offer her anything at all. And the last time any of us saw her, she was retreating wounded into unfamiliar territory with every reason to avoid being found."
"She'll have gone somewhere she trusts," Corvin said. "Somewhere with meaning to her, not just tactical advantage. Everything she's done since the ceremony has carried an emotional weight beneath the strategy the sealed site, the ancestral estate, even the letters she's sent. She wants to be understood, even while insisting she doesn't."
"The Draveth territory's main holdings," Kaelan said slowly. "Not the ancestral seat that's gone now, collapsed. But there's a secon
