Allissa

We planned the hunt in the family war room with only the people we would trust over a cliff edge.

North was all we had. North, a boy’s pointing arm, and a pull he described like a rope tied behind his ribs, and every soul at that table had privately done the same brutal math. We needed him … Thorin was the one person who could find Lyra.

“A small party,” Darren said. “Fast, quiet, who can move without being seen. Whatever took her cut its own trail out of the sky. It will see ...