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“It would have been i to take them by surprise,” Gunter finished

“We need to find them,” Cameron said and led the way back to the car

Tori followed a moment later As much as he didn’t care for his old clan, they were still, in a sense, family They were still his, and he was not about to let a bunch of Jaeggi assholes hurt them

As he cli ornoise drew his attention to the sky He looked up in tih a large bank of clouds, causing them to shift and swirl A sons That The world had been desperatelythat

The return of on clans meant that for the first tiain be filled with the sight of dragons soaring overhead When he’d been in school, the i the skies had been used as a threat Now, he could only see it as a beautiful promise

He lingered for another couple of seconds, hoping to catch a flash of red for Baldewin’s dragon, but he’d had a er head start on them Baldewin could be far on the other side of town by now No matter Baldeas hisBaldewin to shift so Tori could glory in the sight of his dragon without worrying about hi a Taavi Clan member

Back in the SUV, Cameron hurried them the rest of the way into the town and pulled over in the parking lot of a small coffee shop There wasn’t a lot of room to work in the SUV, but Tori and Caain It helped that they were in the town Tori could already feel hints of the various wards and alari had set about the area, and he wasn’t sure if that would help or hinder his work

“Hold up,” Alric said and quickly climbed out of the car Tori looked out the front windshield to see Ravi jogging in their direction in his human form

“Do you think they’ve found where the Jaeggi are hiding?”

“It’s possible It’s not like there’s much to this town,” Tori murmured

“And if you’ve gotthe area, they can make quick work of it,” Cameron added

Ravi and Alric spoke for a moment and then approached the SUV Gunter and Evora opened their doors to climb out

“I think we found them,” Ravi announced a bit breathlessly

“Where?”