CHAPTER 31

　　Magnus wakes up through the night to discover that Nina has not yet gone to bed. He peers out the window to check if Nina is still by the moon tree. There's no trace of her.

　　'I can't smell her scent,'

　　'Nina?' He shouts as he walks down the hallway and then down the stairwell. Lilac and May are the first ones to leave their bedrooms.

　　'Alpha Magnus, it's like three o'clock in the morning. Why are you shouting?'  Lilac asks, adding a yawn.

　　'Have any of you seen Nina?' He asks, 'She didn't come to bed with me last night,'

　　'When was the last time you saw her?' May inquires.

　　'She was under the moon tree with Reaper. I'll go wake him up and ask him if he knows where she has disappeared to. Not that he can tell me, but perhaps he can show me.'

　　As Magnus approaches the moon tree, he notices Reaper, fast asleep with his beak tucked beneath one of his wings.

　　'Reaper, Reaper, I need you to wake up.'

　　Reaper stirs awake, stretches his wings, and clicks his beak.

　　'Nina didn't c