Early on, I’d tucked Egan’s gift away in a storage box in a closet, and now I was trying to push all memory of it from my mind. Because Niall was home. Granddad would be soon too. And there was no way Zeke would head inland beyond what we could handle, all for the sake of some girl who was probably lying about where she’d come from anyway. Everything would be fine. I spun and did another lap of the room. I really needed to put a few games in here. I’d never really had cause to think about it before, but this place was mind-numbing. And meanwhile, it’d been days. Or hours. Or some other way-too-long amount of time since I’d heard any word of what was going on out there. I wondered if Granddad had come back already. Cutting a lap short, I veered over to the window. The guards outside hovered on the slope of the mountainside, their gazes scanning the area all around, but one of them glanced to me when I pushed past the leaves. “Has my grandfather returned yet?” I asked him.
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