Chapter 44

He knew something was wrong when he saw Netya hurrying out of the alpha’s den in the middle of the night. He called her name, but the wind stole his voice away before it could reach her, and a moment later the girl had been swallowed up by the darkness. What brash decision had Khelt made now?

Caspian thought about following her, but it was late, and if the alpha had just thrown her out of his den into the cold he doubted he would find either of them in good tempers. Already the bitter air was numbing his fingers, and he resolved to look into whatever had happened the next morning rather than worrying about it now.

He stepped down from the entrance to the seers’ cave and relieved himself in the snow, before wrapping his furs back up tight and hurrying inside. By all accounts someone who was neither a seer nor a woman should have been forbidden from such a place, but Caspian had never cared much for tradition. As a child he had spent half a winter in here with his mother a