Urdon Pov
I sat in my office across from Kyran, feeling exhausted and scared. We had just returned from the spirit cave, and what we found there was worse than I feared.
"Tell me again what you saw," I said to Kyran. "I need to make sure I understood correctly."
"The moonstone is cracked wider than before," Kyran said. His face was pale and drawn. "Much wider. There is a split running from top to bottom. And black smoke was leaking out slowly."
"Black smoke," I repeated. "Yolande's smoke."
"Yes," Kyran confirmed. "She is escaping. Not quickly but steadily. If we do nothing, she will be completely free within a week. Maybe less."
"And if she gets free," I asked even though I already knew the answer.
"She will finish what she started," Kyran said. "She will kill you. She will kill Freda. She will destroy the pack. Everything we fought for will be lost."
