Oh boy.
‘If you have no detectable powers, they will let you go. We don’t have much time,’Natalie said.
‘You don’t remember me?’Castiel asked me. He had a dark-brown man bun at the nape of his neck and looked like a Viking warrior.
I shook my head.‘Not how you want me to. I’m sorry.’
‘What power did you display? Maybe that will give who you are away. We all have a distinct power on top of a normal span of Greywolf powers,’Gabe said.
Oh, that was news to me.‘I… well, Brayden was about to get jumped by a pack of wolves and I screamed and lashed out and… time stopped, or I guess time didn’t stop but I froze the wolves.’
Everyone’s shoulders collectively slumped.‘You froze matter. It’s something we can all do,’Natalie informed me.
‘But Lena was the most proficient at it,’ Blake added.
I shrugged, not interested in playing this Wren-Lena game again.
‘Tell us of my brother. Does he struggle? What are his plans to get us out?’Gabe asked, and I swallowed hard. How much did they know about his life in Sandpoint? Anything?
‘He’s got Maddy but he lost Nora to another pack—’
‘Who is Nora?’Natalie asked with a frown.
Oh… right. She was fourteen and they hadn’t had any news for… I didn’t know how long.
‘She’s Brayden’s little sister.’
Silence descended over the group. They had a range of collective shock run over their features.
‘And he lost her to another pack?’Axel growled, and someone in the hand dogpile squeezed my fingers so badly it hurt. Only when I hissed did they release me.
‘Silas,’Gabe growled. Gabe was the strong and silent one, I was gathering.
I nodded.
‘The Fae Lords make Brayden fight for his pack every year, and Lena dies every twenty years on her birthday, so he’s always trying to keep his pack and then find her.’I didn’t know how much they knew, and I felt the need to defend why there had been no big escape effort.
‘Has he come for us at all? Any attempts?’Gabe sounded disgusted that Brayden wasn’t trying daily to get here and break them out.
I nodded.‘He said he had! But—’
‘Don’t interrogate her,’Castiel warned his brother with an animalistic growl in his throat.
And I thought Brayden was protective. Wow.
‘Brayden’s power has been severed,’I rambled, unsure how much of this was new news.‘He can’t take on the Fae Lords alone. It would need to be at least three, maybe four of us with fully restored Greywolf power,’I said.
‘And now there are two of you with full power?’Natalie looked hopeful and I nodded.
‘And when Wren gets her memories back, she can restore Brayden’s power and we can come for you,’I promised, suddenly protective over this little family of mine that I barely knew.
Castiel nodded.‘My Wren is safe. That’s all that matters.’He squeezed my hand as if telling me that I was his Wren.
Axel suddenly pitched forward in our little huddle and the bracelet on his wrist glowed a sickly green. He screamed in pain and Natalie looked at me with panic.‘We love you. We know you guys will figure out a way to get us out of here.’
I had forgotten the most important thing to tell them.
‘Novus is awake. The hunt is back—’I shouted, and their eyes all went wide as saucers.
