"It's better if you sit down for a while, dear," Mary suggested, and Helena looked into her soft, tender eyes; she seemed like a kind person. Mary had been taking care of her for about two days.

Her leg still hurt, but she could walk now, and she needed to head to the mountains behind Astaria immediately.

If what Mary and Noah, who had already returned from his hunt, said was really true—that there were Minkovi hunters on the island—the sooner she found the old Banshee, the ...