Neris stood at the border, her children pressed close, and looked at the pack she'd been taught to fear. "Is this real?" she whispered. "Is any of this real?"I walked toward her slowly, my hands visible at my sides, my heart aching at the fear in her eyes. Behind her, the eastern road stretched back toward the sea, toward the village where she had spent forty years pretending to be something she wasn't. And behind me, Silver Hollow waited, its gates open, its wolves gathered in a loose semicircle that I hoped looked welcoming and not threatening."It's real," I said, and I stopped a few paces away, close enough to speak but far enough to give her space. "You're at Silver Hollow. You're safe here."Neris's grip tightened on her children. The girl, whose name I had learned was Maren, pressed her face into her mother's side. The boy, Lio, stood a little apart, his golden eyes wide as he stared at the pack. He was the one who had grabbed my sleeve a month ago, the one who had asked if th
Ler mais