CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Silly little secrets
Ash left, promising he would only tell his mother that Kiara had woken up and chosen me, not that I had been able to understand her and communicate with her.
It was unheard of, even among curers.
We hadn’t seen Ash since, but Kiara made a great companion.
She hunted for us and brought back crows and sometimes quail-like birds, which I cooked on the fire. Kiara ate hers raw, almost swallowing them whole.
We spoke about everything that had happened to us over the course of our lives.
She told me about the day she had been created. I was surprised Shadow Hounds could remember that far back.
She remembered her twin, remembered falling asleep in front of the fireplace, remembered how she’d loved playing with “her boy.”
“Your boy was the man who sa
