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Raven was indeed gone when I awoke in the morning. The sun had barely even been in the sky and yet she was already gone. Her, Drakus, and Kalani. I had known she was going to leave. She told me so. So why did I feel hurt? I was the one who’d even told her we didn’t need her.
Ilrune poked his head into my tent as I tied my sword to my belt and counted the arrows in my quiver. Of course, I was also taking the arrows my father had given me to go with the bow. The ones with a golden tip and gold throughout the length of them.
”Hey,” Ilrune said. “Have you seen Raven?”
I shook my head. “She’s gone,” I told him.
“What?” He asked me. “What do you mean she’s gone? Where did she go? We’re about to go to war.”
I adjusted the two quivers of arrows over my back. “Evidently she says this is n
