Chapter 66

Her perplexity must have registered on her face, for it drew a look of cold satisfaction from Adel.

“The most important skill of a seer is to question these things, and open her mind to possibilities that are not seen by others. It does not matter whether you believe I guided you down the right path or not, only that you consider why I did it. The world is a complicated thing that few see for what it truly is, and the realm of the spirits even more so. These are all things you will learn as my apprentice.”

“I still do not know why you chose me,” Netya said. “The others say you have never taken an apprentice before. Why am I the first?”

Adel looked at her, studying the dark-haired girl with the eyes of a master craftsman appraising the stone that might one day be chipped into a tool unlike any other.

“I considered taking an apprentice many times,” the den mother said, “but these women are not of my pack. They have all grown to think of the spirits in their own