Ivy:
On foot, the army was only about six hours out. But I knew if my family saw me walk away, I would have an argument on my hands.
I rubbed my neck. I felt lost without Damon's ashes there. Even if he had lied to me, I know what I saw. I watched him fade from man to ash and have held him close to my heart ever since.
As the stomping steps of my raging fathers rumbled the halls just outside my room, I summoned a portal that would lead me to the men who were already doing their duty to Clearwater. I was still covered in filth and blood that I hadn't gotten off in the stream, and as the knob on my door jiggled, the state I was in didn't matter. I stepped through the portal, closing off that argument behind me, and into a clearing that made me want to choke Nolan and Tatum.
They had le
