*Sasha*

“Come on, now. You must know I don’t usually come and recruit young interns personally,” Stone Hamline said, leaning in the doorframe of Lucas’s house.

I was glad Lucas was gone, for Stone’s sake. “I really would like to work for you,” I replied honestly. It would be a wonderful opportunity, after all. “But I have to go visit my mother in the Winter Forest.”

“The Light Realm?” Stone’s eyebrows nearly ...