Chapter 42: The Pillar of Sound
Azandra POV
The short walk to another part of Brighmere’s Heart seemed lighter with the wood elves in better spirits. Most of them surrounded Kyon like the visiting royalty he was.
Like him, she admired the wood elves for treating the Beta of the Evenhide Pack, his healer mate, and the Alpha of the Wintertail Pack no differently than anyone else who trespassed. Kyon wasn’t joking when he said they would face a worse fate at Dane’s hands if they managed to make it home. Dane would probably give them a fair hearing eventually, though.
Thankfully, the wood elves seemed to have forgotten the matter entirely, and the hard-edged Minister Saida peppered Azandra with questions about the firefox hound. Azandra was forced to admit none of the victims had actually seen one, at least not outside of the red and white blur.
“No surprise,” Minister Saida sighed. “They are forever in motion except when asleep. They are restless creatures.”
“You can’t talk to them?” Azandra asked.