Cassian's pov

The next three days passed in a blur of movement, exhaustion, and tension that showed that a aware was at the horizon.

We didn’t have the luxury of sitting in the war room, debating possibilities—we needed eyes on the borders. The kingdom was too large to patrol as one unit, so we split the work. Caleb took the West, Kin went North, and I took the Southern and Eastern borders.

It was a lot of ground to cover, even for me. The Southern border was our weakest point, ...