Chapter 13: Everything They Believed Was a Lie

I heard the rest secondhand, later, from a very old seer who liked me. I'm told it went like this. They found a skeleton on the shore of the Black River. Picked clean. Unrecognizable. Beside it, half-buried in the sand, a red-gem chain. Draven took one look at it and went to his knees, because he'd made it with his own hands for a crying thirteen-year-old girl. Selene got to them before the grief could set. "It's a trick," she hissed. "She jumps in and someone conveniently sees. A body...