Eli
“You’re two minutes late,” Hazel accuses when I reach her.
“Thank you for trusting me,” I say, meaning it sincerely for once.
She’s the only who ever gives me the benefit of the doubt. If she thought I couldn’t handle myself, she’d have told Jace, and the entire cavalry would have come hunting for me.
“What happened?”
I give her the highlights before asking, “What did Jace say?”
“He’s sent scouts to form a perimeter around the area. He’s hoping to catch any stray Redmaw spies if they try and leave our territory. You have to tell Ronan what happened.”
I try and fail to suppress a sigh. He’ll know I was up to something, but I don’t think I can handle him dismissing this as another false alarm.
He’ll blather on about how I didn’t see who the person in the cloak was and I can’t
