They made it back to the Grove at dawn.

Ragnar went straight to the female they had brought out, whose name was Wren, and got her to Senna without stopping. Marina watched him do it, the specific care of it, the way he positioned himself between Wren and the unfamiliar wolves who came to look, and she noted what that told her and filed it away.

She went to find Silvain.

He was at the map table, which was where he had been for most of the last two days, running logistics for the Goldenridge and Bloodfang raids while Marina was in the field. He looked up when she came...