Noctisardor Bypass veida

Her lips parted. She’d noted the girls’ absence on some level, yet hadn’t realized they were gone. Heda listed those left in Rivenwood—a scarce number, the absence of Witch’s name causing a pang—and reasoned that they couldn’t fend for themselves. She said they only had a few choices in a tone that implied she was about to present them.

Druid tipped her sooty snout, urging Heda to continue. She wasn’t sure what to say for herself. And she couldn’t speak for anyone else. But if only some of them would find their way back here—preferably anyone but the brute she’d commanded to leave—then she thought they could manage.