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Chapter 1: Rhys

We had to collect a large aer than ever before—and we had to do it quickly Thanks to the Novak boy, at least we didn’t need to keep our activities hidden now This was the only thing that

I had given all our witches an hour to recuperate after the battle I headed straight to Isolde’s rooms at the top of the castle and hurried toward her bedroo an injured elbow Burns covered every visible part of her skin, as with Julisse and ht now

She looked up at me, the torture of the setback we’d just experienced still fresh in her eyes

I brushed aside my own disappointment, and touched her shoulder

“Will you be able to accompany us?”

She nodded, reaching for a glass of wolf blood by the side of her bed and taking a deep gulp She wiped hercarefully about this next step,” she said, her voice hoarse “Since we don’t have ”

“I’,” I said

“Young blood is e need It will be at least four, possibly five tiet adolescents”

I nodded “I will plan a route accordingly”

I walked over to my aunt’s desk in the corner of the room, reached up to a shelf above it, and pulled down a h it until I reached one of the nearest inhabited shorelines to us Isolde slid out of bed and walked over todown at the map from behind my shoulder

“We still have soate If we have time, we could also collect some more wolves from their realeon, but they’re mostly shriveled and sickly by now”

“H attention to her words as I pulled out a pen fros on the e fro it into my cloak pocket I walked into the bathroo cold water over my face I raised my head and looked at myself in the h my head

She said that I looked older

I shook thoughts of that witch away and driedIsolde’s bedroom She had finished the last of the wolf blood and was fastening a cloak around her

“How is your elbow?” I asked

“Better now that I’ve finished that,” lass