Red
They marched north in the days that followed, Cath and Red barely speaking to each other, coming to peaceful terms that neither of them would ever again cross the boundaries of the other. It didn’t matter what Red or Cath had to say about it, it was better like this for everyone. Red couldn’t allow himself the vulnerability he had felt in Cath’s embrace when he woke from the vague nightmare and felt like the whole world threatened to suffocate him. Never again.
Red rode with his people, while Cath was always a few feet away from them, even Nela was not able to break through to him. Jade was more and more finding herself close to the female elf, as if ridden by curiosity, now that she had finally stopped feeling guilty of the past and the injustice of the war. She was asking Nela of s
