Chapter 103

*Kaelen*

I spotted them before they saw me.

A flicker of movement through the trees, the gleam of steel strapped to a shoulder, the way Varis stood half-turned as if expecting ambush even in a quiet grove. Always alert. Always coiled, like he never learned how to rest.

Rowan Thorne was next to him, and beside Rowan—slim, steady, but walking without a limp now—was Slo.

They had made it.

The moment