And with that, I take a step over the border, into rogue territory for the first time in my life. Well, in my life that I can remember. Lily steps over and takes my hand. My mother takes my hand. She leads me through a few more feet of the caves until we finally walk out into the woods in the rogue lands. I stop for a moment and just look around. It looks just like the woods in our territory, nothing terrible and scary like I’d always been told growing up. I guess the scary part is the rogues themselves, though.
“This way, dear. It’s not far.” Lily tells me, leading us to a well worn path. “We always have lived near the cave, just in case something happened and we needed to get to you quickly. It’s the quickest way into the property.”
“So when my mate and brother came earlier t
