I stayed silent, wanting him to continue, and he did. 

“Over a year ago, my brother sent me to the north with a message for Alpha Koz, the alpha of truth and knowledge, and on my way back from the North, I saw you. It had been five years since my encounter with you then and a lot had changed since then in my life, yet I recognized you and I felt something I never felt in a long while.”

I remember visiting the north because I received word about a child I had searched for a few years earlier. She was being held as a prisoner and I negotiated...