Soren and I arrived at the cave first. I stayed near the mouth of the cave, and a few minutes later, I saw two familiar wolf figures approaching the cave with a man on one of their backs.
I went about making sure Ethan was comfortable on his makeshift bed, but it wasn’t time yet for me to use the flower to save him. We had to be patient and wait for the nectar.
“Why didn’t we just go back to the palace?” Soren asked me. I hadn’t explained everything to him when we were running as wolves, and he’d come along with me out of faith.
Keeping my voice low, I looked around the cave and replied, “There are spies in the palace. There have to be, or else Madalynn wouldn’t have known that we were going after the flower.”
Seraphine and Vicky gasped, covering their hands with their mouths.
I summarized the situation for them. “We were attacked by Madalynn. That's why only Soren and I came back first. The rest of the group stayed to hold them off.”