Kian

I give my son to Margo and follow Nara. I understand that she loves her father, that they have a special connection, and that she wants to save him, but Josiah Adalwolf is unsavable.

I track her scent to the waterfalls. She's sitting at the edge of the rift.

"I don't want company," she says without turning to look at me. I sit beside her, and she snaps her head to glare at me.

"Kian, please," her voice shakes. A tear rolls down her cheek, and she wipes it away before I can.

We are silent for a long time until she breaks it. "We were happy as a...