Silver Creek Part Two: Good Intentions

The calmness was short-lived as the Alpha's gazed zeroed in on Grace, and her own body tightened in on itself as her golden gaze flicked to the ground. She didn't know why Tamborine was left to the devices of Marauders Keep, but thought maybe Nova would have deterred them from Tavi's son to put his eyes on the daughters he thought gone forever; the yearling didn't dare voice this suspicion, loathe to earn her adoptive mother another enemy when -- much as she hated to think it -- Tavi was gone. The russet girl didn't even bring up the fact that she could get the information from the elder herself without a struggle. 

                       "I d-don't kk-now, Spring. M-Maybe T-T-Tavi said s-something t-to him to m-make him leave th-them alone?"