Chapter 327

Cleo's POV

It had been a week since the clash on the border.

A week of silence.

Too much silence.

The East had not returned, not even to harry our patrols. The borderlands remained untouched, the forest quiet but for wind and birdsong. To the others, it was a blessing. To me, it was a warning.

"Just a probe," I muttered under my breath, the word like iron on my tongue. A test.

That was all the las