“So …theoretically…”
Isaac nodded. “Theoretically, if we found the twin brother, he could forge a staff foryou.”
“Does she need a staff? Can’t we train her with other weapons,” Logan asked. I was gathering he didn’t like the idea of us traipsing around looking for some staff-forgingelf.
Isaac frowned. “I’m sorry, but you want Ardan dead, right? You want the skyborn hunt calledoff?”
Hunt.That word sent chills down my spine, but it was soaccurate.
Logan groaned and put a protective hand on my lower back. “Yes,but…”
Crunching rocks sounded behind us, and I spun around to see Sophie in her coyote form, and Danny walking towards us with wideeyes.
“What in the hell was that?” Danny asked, waving his hand in the air and then grabbing hisballs.
I flinched. “You felt it back at camp? Geeze,sorry.”
Sophie was smelling the ground as if looking for a magicalperpetrator.
Danny was in his usual rockabilly getup, slicked black quaff and well-manicured nails. Not a cuticle in sight. I decided then that his skin was much nicer than mine. Not a dry patch or large pore to beseen.
“Sorcerer! Just the man I needed to see.” Isaac opened his arms wide and Danny looked at me with a raisedeyebrow.
“Is anyone going to explain why I might not be able to have children now?” Danny pinned me with a glare and then shifted to look at the gooddruid.
I snickered, but I let itgo.
“Sloane needs a staff like mine in order to harness her magic properly, and learn to defeat the druids,” Isaac explained. “That means we need to find an old friend. Anelf.”
Sophie’s coyote head jerked up at the word “elf.”
Danny’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed hard. “Excuse me, did you just say …elf?”
Isaac nodded at the sorcerer. “But I don’t know where he is. Can you help me?” Isaac must have assumed that as a full-blown sorcerer Danny was capable of finding this elffellow.
Danny blew air through his lips. “If I knew what I was looking for maybe, but an elf? I’ve never even seen one, so I wouldn’t even know where to begin with making a spell to findone.”
“I’m sure Eva can help,” Logan piped in, and Isaac met my eyes. We both looked to theground.
Danny frowned. “I haven’t seenher.”
“She’s probably still sleeping,” Logansaid.
Isaac rolled out his neck, stretching, and then approached Logan. “Actually, son, Eva left right after you all went to sleep. There was something she felt she had to do. But she’ll be intouch.”
Logan’s head snapped back in shock. “She left? We were just attacked. Half the pack is injured and sheleftus?” I could hear the hurt in hisvoice.
“Ahem. I’m here.” Danny said from behindus.
Logan ignored Danny’s proclamation and glared at Isaac. “Where did shego?”
Isaac stared into Logan’s deep green eyes for an extended moment, seemingly sizing him up. “She went to search for the other skyborn. Said she owed it toyou.”
Logan’s mouth popped open. “And you let her go!Alone?”
Isaac laughed deeply. “You think I can control that woman? She interrogated me about every scrap of information I knew about the remaining skyborn, and left. I’ve known Eva a long time. She’ll befine.”
Logan’s chest rose and fell harshly, his fists balled. “And what exactly do you know about the remaining skyborn? Where arethey?”
