"Prerna?" the groggy voice replied. "Where are we?"
"Eli's home," Prerna replied without thought. Afterward, she knew Elsa wouldn't have approved of her disclosing the location if he hadn't already, but she had no feeling of regret twisting inside her. "When did you get here?"
"I'm not sure," the boy said. "The last thing I remember was being beaten. Again." She heard him stand. "I was in the caves."
"Elsa must've brought you here." Prerna pondered that for a moment. If he'd done that, he really must not have been happy with how his fellow vampires were handling the prisoner situation. "You haven't spoken to him?"
"Not since the beach," he said, now crouching on the other side of the door. His dirty feet moved and then his face replaced them on the ground. His brown eyes stared back at
