Desperate Pursuit

Astrid

“We have to help,” I say desperately to Cassian. “We have to go along with the search parties.”

It is near sundown the following day, and the guards told us just an hour ago over the mind-link that they’d lost the trail at a large lake a few miles from the Vulgari border.

“I’ve written to King Tiberius. That done, I think you’re right. We should join the search parties.” He sets down the ro