Chapter Twelve: The Story She Can't Afford

The war isn't a wall, it's a story: the Warden needs Wren dead slow and public so no leashed wolf ever dares run again. Wren's answer is to make Nightriver a lantern for the hunted. And here's the fracture line of this whole book, Dain does NOT agree, thirty years of survival taught him to be the darkest thing on the horizon, not the brightest, and she's asking him to undo it. Then the accelerated blood plays its card: the birth isn't weeks off. It's days. Are you team lantern or team stay hidden? Comment your side, and add to library.