Caspian's POV**

The abandoned ranger station looked like something out of a horror story—all shadows and broken windows and the kind of isolation that made you wonder what had driven the previous occupants away. But it had walls, a roof that mostly worked, and enough distance from the Academy to let us breathe for the first time in hours.

I watched Aria examine the perimeter while Hayes searched for supplies, and tried to process everything that had happened tonight.

My roommate was a ...