ARIAIt's getting late and Ryder still isn't back. I'm so nervous that I can hardly breathe. The Nocturn—a woman, I've now decided—is watching me patiently with her hands on her lap. She's seated directly across from me, watching me in a way that I find totally unnerving. Never saying a word. Impatiently, I stand up. This waiting is going to kill me. The harder I think about it, the worse I feel. I realized a long time ago that something was wrong, yet, I didn't act on it. "I can't take this," I say out loud. "I need to find him."The woman stands up. Since we came in and I decided to trust her, she told me only a little bit about Nocturns and emphasized that I would need to strengthen my wolf in order to face the storm that was headed our way. She then told me that I would have to go with her to the hiding place she mentioned earlier, and I told her I couldn't. That I had to wait for Ryder. Ever since, we've been waiting, not saying a word. My idea was that I would wait for his
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