outpost where they’d lied that the Valg prince had been contained … Elide gripped Essar’s hands, finding them warm and dry. “Does your sister know where Cairn resides in the camp?” For long minutes, then an hour, they had talked. Essar left and returned with Dresenda, her sister. And in that alley, they had plotted. Elide finished telling Rowan, Lorcan, and Gavriel what she’d learned. They sat in stunned silence for a long minute. “Just before dawn,” Elide repeated. “Dresenda said the watch on the eastern camp is weakest at dawn. That she’d find a way for the guards to be occupied. It’s our
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