They were struck with awe when they all got to the Lakeshore. As instructed, Dylan had asked for Foden, Cedric and three members of their pack council, accompanied by guards, to visit the lake together. Mona couldn't join them because she had been on her way to see Sansan before branching into the study to announce her departure.

As Mona explained, the Guarire plant had established itself by the Lakeshore. A part of it that Cedric's maid had found was one of the harvests chewed off by ...