VALERIE

'That was fun!' I tell Evie through the link as we return home after the hunting.

'Fun?" she asks incredulously. 'We couldn't catch a single prey, all thanks to Edith.' Evie complains and I laugh.

'True, but you got to admit the chase was fun.' I tell her.

'Yeah, I almost bit that deer's tail.' she says chuckling.

We are walking in the woods; actually I'm sitting on Evie's back.

My gaze falls on the white walls of the moon temple. I haven't visited there ever since I came back.

'It's beautiful.' Evie tells me.

'You've been there?'

Yeah, Jasper took me there the day he marked me.'

'Oh!...