Meet my Overprotective Brothers
He was killing himself to keep her alive, while her brothers were likely being unmade by her mother’s hand.
She turned away from the window, her eyes landing on the floorboards near the hearth. One of the planks was slightly askew. Driven by a sudden, frantic need to do something, she knelt and pried the wood upward.
Tucked into a bed of dry moss was a book bound in white wolf-hide. It bore no title on the spine, only a silver seal of a sun being held by two hands. As Elara touched the cover, a spark of recognition traveled up her arm.