With the threat- Sydney, gone, it was safe to travel anywhere and leave town in hands of any higher officials that Leander trusted. I left with a few people in charge of the borders, assuring no one would attack us while we were gone and Gwen in charge of the house, assuring no one come inside or read any of Leander's private files.

When I left town, I knew I was going to return with a hundred people questioning, maybe even protesting us. By then they'd learn we had been poisoned and we were different than everyone else. Some of them would dread us, flee and run away in fear...