Elowen's POV "You didn't know?" Ronan dropped onto the chair like he lived there, which in practice he basically did. "He didn't tell you?" I shook my head. We'd talked briefly in the car the night before, and he hadn't mentioned a word about it. Ronan shrugged like this was perfectly normal behaviour. "Well. Get your shoes on." On the drive over, I kept waiting for the feeling to settle, but it didn't. Kael had said I'd have the same standard of living in the Northern Reach as I'd had in Duskbloom, and I'd nodded at the time without really believing it. He'd kept his word in small ways up to now, the clothes, the food, Sable's supplies appearing without being asked for, but this was different. The studio was in the heart of the Northern Reach, all wide floors and tall mirrors and the

