That summer, Harlan had dragged his ass out of bed and went to work every day, thanking Rhen he was one day closer to death, one day closer to reuniting with his dead mate, Eventine.
Things were pretty boring until, just after Bruin and Willow left to on their trip round the world, Harlan was tasked with leading the team protecting thedragen’smate as she gave birth to the firstdragengelin history. That was terrifying,especially when Leilani stepped through time to be there and Jaggar’s beast stood up and took notice.
Later, Harlan and Jaggar went out to Roosevelt Asylum to follow up on a tip. They found Leilani tied to a hospital bed and the male orderly with her scenting of deception and shame. Jaggar would stand for neither when it came to his mate. He punched the male in the throat one time, and the male dropped dead to the ground. Jaggar didn’t care that vengeance exacted meant his termination from the police force. Leilani was all that mattered.
Thewolventook Leilani out of the Roosevelt and took her to the farm. Harlan only wanted to protect her, but sometimes… sometimes she reminded him so strongly of his lost Eventine he could just… close his eyes and imagine Eventine was in the room…
Eventine’s mother is the goddess Rhen, which makes Eventine powerful in ways no one can understand. Eventine was operating Leilani’s body while Leilani hid in Rhen’s Meadow. Harlan kissed Eventine’s spirit but Leilani’s lips, and Jaggar caught him at it. Jaggar shifted into his beast and mauled his best friend, then ran north.
Conri told Harlan that Abigail White was afoxenwitch who could hide from the wolves and Harlan should ask her to procure a body for Eventine. Harlan went after the witch in a rage instead, breaking into her store and trashing it. She used magical notes to suggest Harlan use the time traveler to go back in time and save Eventine.
Harlan refused to do it, but he wasn’t the one destined. That job fell on her father, Burton.
Eventine was brought to the present. She drank thedragenblood, and shelived… lived… lived.Harlan still hears those words in his dreams, when he’s cuddling his perfect mate to his chest.
Trent followed Jaggar’s beast north. Trent was the best one to go, because he was still a non-shifting wolf. Trent left behind his brother Troy, because Troy had recently shifted into a man for the first time ever and was scared to shift back into a wolf in case he got stuck that way.
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A few days later, Trent found Jaggar’s beast in a cave in Wisconsin and confronted him. During the incident, Trent was struck on the head anddied,shifting for the first time ever at the point of death, and heading to a dead meadow, where his echo Smokey, separated him and his wolf, sending his wolf back to its body instantly, and sending Trent to another world, on a mission he could only succeed at without his wolf, while his wolf was sent on a mission in Wisconsin that he could only succeed at without Trent.
Jaggar had no control over his beast, but when Leilani talked to him from the meadow, the beast turned right around and headed back to the farm. He arrived as Leilani was drinkingdragenblood. Leilani opened her eyes and they glowed silver, but she couldn’t see a thing. In desperation, she sought out Jaggar.
They time-traveled many times that night, finding clues to who they really were, until they ended up in Rhen’s Meadow—both of them healed and whole. The catamount guardian sent Leilani back in time to choose to speak up at a time when she’d once chosen to stay silent. That last time fixed enough of their problems so that they could be together.
When Jaggar finally claimed Leilani, his cougar-half left him, tearing Leilani’s time-travel clock out of her mind and taking it to the Meadow, leaving both Jaggar and Leilani healed and whole and happy.
Jaggar’s cougar-half, Tabias, is now the mate of the catamount guardian of the Meadow.
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A month later, Trent was still missing, but Troy instinctively knew he was fine and didn’t worry about him. Troy met his mate, Reed, at a cop bar where she worked, and pursued her with a single-minded lack of finesse that lost Reed two jobs and one apartment.
Sage had been working at that same bar for many months when Reed started working there. They became fast friends, both of them feeling like they’d met a long-lost sister.
For the first time, several KSRT officers came to Mugshots, and they brought powerful females with them. Sage paid close attention, recording every detail for the Vvyndicate. When she heard Troy Burbank’s name, she was shocked. She’d been taught in school that Troy Burbank was animpot,unable to shift, but there he was, shifted into a man and lusting after her friend, Reed. Sage notified the Vvyndicate, but they already knew.
Later, when Sage learned that Troy had claimed Reed, Sage didn’t share that with the Vvyndicate. She couldn't bring herself to tell, even if it felt like a betrayal to thefoxen. She reasoned that the Vvyndicate already knew, or that it wasn’t important. Allfoxenknew of thewolvenOne True Mate prophecy, and allfoxenknew the mates were being found.
Unbeknownst to the wolves, Conri took Sage on a few dates. They got along well, but there was never any real love connection between them and so they’ve cooled things way down, but the wolves don’t know anything about Sage.
In Serenity, while Troy was pursuing Reed, the ground shook several times, and during one of these ‘Khainquakes’ Blake, awolvenpatrol officer, fell into a coma. During another his heart flatlined, but he was resuscitated. To this day, Blake has not regained consciousness.
Troy revealed that Blake is part-foxen.
A kit statue appeared next to the catamount statue at the west end of town.
In the Pravus, the demon ordered Grey to use Cerise’s pendant to kill the angel, and then Grey was given his wish—to work for the demon. Later, Grey discovered that when he held his hand in the position of the killing blow, the pendant appeared in it.
Khain ordered his team to ‘bring him the wolf in the coma’, which turned into a big fight up the bluff, which the KSRT won.
Troy won Reed’s heart and Reed joined the team, bringing her ability to talk to plants.
Secretly during this time, Khain came to the Ula repeatedly and stole everyfoxenhe could find, until all areafoxenwere on the alert. The Van Crimsons went into hiding, and Abigail White called her family into lockdown up at the Morning Wood Inn and she hid the entire place with a giant magic bubble. Sage’s phone was taken from her car with magic as she drove through the gate, so she’s had no way to contact the Vvyndicate, or Reed, or her job for the last several days.
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Reed came to live at VF, and she told the wolves that Sage, a friend she worked with at Mugshots, must be a One True Mate, and so Trevor sent a team out to find Sage, but the team has only discovered that she’s missing.
