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I bared my teeth, not liking the heated way they were staring at my mate. When one of the females spotted me, she smirked, and her comment drifted toward me on the breeze.
“There’s some nice eye candy for you,” she whispered to her friend.
I frowned just as Nish turned toward the other guards with a glower. “Ock! What is the meaning of this? Referring to others as though they’re sweets ordesserts?” He grumbled, then shook his head. “It must be an odd human thing. Perhaps I shall try it if I ever interact with one.”
“You’re going to interact with a human?” Ryder’s eyebrows shot up.
Nish shrugged, then scowled. “I was considering it. I thought perhaps I would say she looks like a beautiful lollipop. Do you think that sounds flattering?”
Sandus snorted. “I think you should try it.”
Haxil and I laughed as the hunter leaned closer to my mate. “Are they always like this?”
Norivun sighed. “Yes.”
Haxil scratched his chin. “The world has truly turned upside down if Nish is now considering speaking to the humans.”
“Keep your comments down,” the prince reminded them when another human gave us a confused side-eye.
The Fire Wolf placed his hands on his hips. “Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I’ll be able to find your warlock. I haven’t met a prey I can’t eventually track, but I’m warning you, it could take weeks to discover his location.”
I nibbled my lip. “We don’t have weeks.”
The prince reached into his pocket and extracted a piece of fabric. “Would this help? In my realm, I would use this to scry for him, but I’m unsure if that magic will work here.”
My eyes widened. “Wait, what? You own something of the warlock’s?”
Nish crossed his arms. “Don’t look so shocked, Ilara. The prince has a habit of swiping items his enemies possess.”
I rolled my eyes and remembered how Norivun had once admitted that to me. “But how did you get it?”
Norivun shrugged. “I’m guessing it’s part of his cloak. Bits of fabric were left behind in the rubble on the night he tried to murder Daiseeum, and since it didn’t match Daiseeum’s clothing, I’m assuming it’s the warlocks.”
My jaw dropped. “How did you get it?”
“I had Patrice retrieve it when you were locked in the dungeons. It was missed by the constructo fae in the cleanup process.”
“Dungeons?” The hunter raised his eyebrows. “Your lives sound nearly as exciting as mine.”
“A malady we’re trying to correct.” I glared at my mate. “Is there a reason you didn’t tell me you possessed this?”
Norivun smiled slyly. “I figured you’d learn about it soon enough.”
“Is this like when you told me I’d eventually figure out all of your affinities since you like to see me guessing?”
His grin grew. “Maybe?”
“You do know that you still haven’t revealed your sixth affinity to me, right?”
He shrugged. “I might be aware of that.”
Huffing, I nodded toward the cloththat the Fire Wolf plucked from my mate’s fingers. “Will that delightful piece of fabric speed the process up?”
The hunter smirked. “Perhaps. I’ll give it a try.”
CHAPTER 12 - NORIVUN
The hunter requested that we follow him to a different area in his realm, a place called the land of Portland.
