“So I can hold you both by your words that Prescott can protect my daughter for tonight, till when we get to her tomorrow?” Nathan Makonel asked Julius and Aiden, believing that their words would mean more to him, seeing that they were of his kind, and had better measurements for the power of the squirrel whose descriptions seemed familiar for some reason.

After his reconciliation with his family, who were seated right beside him, Nathan had listened again as the people surrounding the large table in the room had told their stories regarding what had happened over the period when his daughter, Emma, had made an appearance in the...