King Elk Forest Love is the prize

three days. Saena had been gone three days and Spring had taken the Creek from her. what the actual fuck. the boy had seen his cousin before the coup -- of course she had been weird-acting and said funny shit, but why wouldn't they try and wait to see if she came back to herself?

Casmir Mayfair's loyalty was to his family, and that was Saena and her brood. no one else, and especially not a woman he knew nothing about. the whole world had gone mad, it seemed. he stalked angrily toward the glimpses of blue water he could see through the trees, hoping for a drink to to calm his hot and frayed nerves, and was immediately heartened by the sight of Laika.

"hey," he murmured, sliding into the water alongside her.