*Safina* I recounted what I had told Derek and Benji to Trevor about the suspicious stranger. His reaction was one of deep concern. There was something he was hiding and not telling everyone else. I could see it on his face. On top of that, he kept talking secretly to Raghorn as if the two of them were on some secret mission or something. I wanted to know what it was, but there was no way that he would actually tell me anything. Maribel was sitting across from me on the other side of Shane. She was slightly humming as she was crocheting. She had brought a basket of fresh fruit for whoever wanted to enjoy them. The two of us didn’t talk much, but I could tell she was highly worried about the young future Alpha. While quite a few people came to visit him, including Nora and some of their

