Frost on the Grasslands | Shelha Series 1 | ✔

Chapter Two: Renegade

Have you known the night,

Do you fly along the starfields?

Does the dusk attend

At the dawn

Of a rising shadow?

Loyal to the end

To the ways of a renegade,

Freedom is the password,

Thief is the name.

Come to the vermin lair,

Traps lightly lifted,

Seeming to take to air,

Trackless here

Traceless there;

Your wish is yours to take,

Captives releasing,

Work for your honour's sake,

Nothing secure.

Shadow in the storm,

Seen by none,

Caught by fewer,

Sing the song of freedom,

Vermin to grief ...

Sing the dirge of outlaw,

Rebel and thief.

"No change," said Rose as Kastar slipped through the bushes to join her.

It had been a full day since the fight. Kastar lay down and licked Tornado's face, but there was no response that Sethral could see. Rose was pressed against her mate's back. It was becoming clear that Tornado's injuries ran deeper than it had first appeared. Echo had done all she could, but it wasn't enough. Kastar looked up Sethral's watch tree.

Sethral hopped down before he had a chance to call. "What's up?"

"We need you to go and find someone."

Sethral cocked her head. Rose and Kastar were exchanging a look, like they were trying to determine how much to tell. If there was someone they knew who could help Tornado, why hadn't they told her earlier?

Kastar looked back up again. "Do you know the Rocklander twins? Taz and Fletch?"

"Yeah, I've seen them before. Never met them directly, but they seem friendly enough."