Blacktail Deer Plateau and there will be pain in letting it go

ingram is keeper of a few things; his threadbones being all he could not bear to part with.

we should not linger, ingram says, thinking of all the problems that had came to basilica's borders within the past months: the ungrateful, nearly dead child and the entire pack wishing to extract revenge.

they'd always been small but without the strength of stable borders, ingram does not wish to prolong the journey.

for toula's sake or his own.

i will gather my threadbones while you speak with ash paw. he would not stop the akashingo princess from asking the pregnant mage if she wished to go with them.