VER I pushed open the door to Tephysea’s house and was nearly pulled off my feet as she pulled me through the door faster than I could walk. She hugged me briefly which surprised me because she wasn’t a woman who usually showed her emotions before letting me go and doing the same to my brother. Only, he also got a slap to the back of his head and a lecture about how careless he was to get caught and that he should be lucky that he has such a great older brother or else he’d be dead. I smiled the whole time whilst he tried to pry himself from her arms. Aila and Galen appeared to be enjoying it as much as I was as they shrugged out of their cloaks and set their weapons in their chests. I shrugged out of my own cloak, realizing that it was actually the one Raven had given me and that she ha

