Sun Mote Copse This mess is a place

-Because I kept Nellie's promise. Nellie wanted to deal with Colt's death on her own with the Frosthawks. She made me promise not to tell anybody, not even Niamh, about where she was. I knew Niamh was worried, but I didn't know she thought Nellie was dead. I apologized, explained that I didn't know all that, that I would have told her if I had known just how worried she was... but she wouldn't accept it.- The words came tumbling out much more quickly than he had anticipated or planned.

It wasn't as though his feelings for Niamh suddenly vanished just because they'd had a tiff, but he was fairly certain that her feelings—assuming she had any for him—were snuffed out for good. -It just doesn't seem like a good idea for us to get together if this is how things start.- If he'd known anything about his parents and their constant fighting, he probably would have had a good laugh. Alas, Finley and Elwood were his main parental role models, and they'd been nothing but happy with each other. That was the kind of partnership he wanted. He couldn't imagine that being Niamh right now.