CRYSTAL

“What? Winter is barren all this time? And she never told Alpha Kallias just to keep her position?”

I barely registered the woman’s gasp of disbelief. My attention was elsewhere, fixed on the space where Valtor had been standing moments ago.

He’d been right there, only a few steps from me, the center of everyone’s attention, mine included and now he had vanished.

“Crystal, please explain more.”

“Yes please. How did we not-"

“Shut up,” I snapped, ...