“Kyla, I dinna think I’m goin’ te be stayin’. Matter o’ fact, I plan on leavin’ really soon.” “What do ye mean? Does Aidan ken aboot this?” Effie couldn’t have the girl telling Aidan she planned on leaving. She didn’t want to alert him to her plan. She had to say something to keep her quiet. “I mean, I really miss me sister and worry aboot her,” she said, which wasn’t a lie. “But Aidan disna need te ken thet I’m no’ goin’ te stay. Especially since he willna care anyway, if he tells all the lassies he loves them.” “I can understand thet.” “So dinna say anythin’ te him jest yet. I mean . . . I’ll tell him later, all right?” “If ye say so,” she said. “But I will miss ye.” Effie almost cried out when she looked over Kyla’s shoulder and spied Tasgall peering out at her from behind a clump of trees.
