Alpha Orion
"I wouldn't have made it here without someone. A man named Erik – I met him in the North, and he tried to help us escape. He was the one that gave me hope that we might actually make it to the Outlands, where it is safe."
His face changed, the lines around his mouth folding. "The truth is Erik was sent to the North as a spy," he muttered, looking away from her, and she slipped her hand into his that was limp at his side.
"I know, Papa, and he died trying to protect me," she muttered, pain ripping through her at the memory of his brutal death.