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Alaric walked over to Kade, “We should get back.”
“Wait,” Finn said, his gaze roving over the sea, “That’s it.”
I stepped back from him, “What is?”
“We can’t find Ricon’s army because it isn’t here,” he said animatedly, his eyes alight, “Can’t you see,” he said, gesturing to the view before us. “We’ve combed over every inch of the Wastes and found nothing. The abandoned camp was on the western shore. And there aren’t enough Fae he’d be able to rally to fight for his cause on Meloran.”
He wouldn’t have…
No, it wasn’t possible. Was it?
Kade’s jaw dropped, and Alaric’s eyes hardened.
“He’s gathering his forces, alright,” Finn continued, “And he’s bringing them here by sea.”
“That’s why we couldn’t find them,” Kade said, a faraway look in his eyes, “We can’t fly that far out to sea without rest.”
Alaric ran a fisted hand through his hair, “So how do we find out? Do we send ships to scout on the seas?”
Finn shook his head, “It would take our entire fleet to find them if that’s where they are. The Varinian Sea is just too vast.”
“We can do it,” Kade said, his hands balling to fists at his sides, “We can fly further. Our ancestors flew all the way to Emeris—to Mt. Idris. We can at least fly half as far.”
Alaric frowned at Kade, “No, Kade. You can’t shift like they could. You’ll drown if you try.”
“I have an idea,” I said, rolling the thought around in my mind, trying to work it into a proper shape.
Finn stepped away from me, “Alaric is right,” he said to Kade, “It would be sui—”
“IsaidI have an idea,” I said again, louder.
Alaric turned to me, “What was that?”
I rolled my eyes at him, the heat at my core reawakening to a light simmer, “The Wraiths,” I said simply.
“The Wraiths warned me about Ricon, and they saved your life,” I said, looking pointedly at Finn, “If I ask them, I think they’ll help us. There are hundreds of them in the Varinian sea and they communicate through their minds. They can have the entirety of the sea searched in days instead of weeks.”
Alaric and Kade wore twin frowns, but Finn nodded his approval, “You’re a genius,” he said, turning to scoop me up off the earth and into a suffocating embrace.
He plopped me back down and I heaved air back into my lungs. When my breath returned, I shoved him, “Not so hard!”
Finn bit his bottom lip, and the motion made me instantly lose all my ire. I shook my head at him. My sweet, smart Finn. What would I do without him? “So, it’s agreed then?” I asked him, “We should go to the Wraiths for help.”
Alaric kicked at the sand, thrusting his fisted hands into the pockets of his trousers, “I don’t like it, but even I can’t deny it’s a good plan.”
Kade shivered, “Those things are so—”
“So?” I prodded him.
“Gross.”
“Gross?”
He swallowed, “They’re all—slimy and tentacley.”
“Tentacley?”
He nodded, “And they’reblue.”
