Page 123 of Wildfire Witch
And then I spothim.He’s a couple of steps behind her. Slate gray eyes and dark hair, a thick beard covering the lower half of his face, making his expression impossible to read.
I don’t know who he is, but I canfeelthat he’s important.
“We hear you need some help.” The woman holds up a piece of colored paper with details of Ember’s frozen state and the reward for helping him.
“Since when did we get flyers printed?” Hanna murmurs in my ear.
I’m not sure on that detail either, but something is growing inside me. A bubble of something I haven’t felt in a long time.
These people. I’ve Seen them before.
It strikes me at that moment, at some point in the past couple of minutes, my head has stopped pounding. The pain is gone.
“Uh, yes,” I reply, nodding to both the woman and the man who is silently assessing me from head to toe.
“Well, this is your lucky day. We’re here to break him free.”
