Wheeling Gull Isle With scarves of red tied round their throats

He didn’t know it to be true, but Phox felt like he was being had. He couldn’t prove it, and maybe it was just his mind playing tricks on him. He liked to think that he would have allowed such a request, but the truth was, he didn’t know. The outskirts wouldn’t be enough for him, he knew, and it wouldn’t satisfy the itch he felt to find Niamh and the children.

No, that’s okay. I’ll keep searching back on the mainland. If she comes back, can you send word to the caldera? To get to us, follow the river upstream, take the right fork, and we’re just beyond the forest south of the lake. It would mean the world to my family and me.