chapter 42

He shows me the perimeter near the river where we found Sage. I exhale a sigh of relief. The rogues they spotted near the border tonight have to be the same ones that we keep catching snooping around the perimeter. “They never crossed the river, just ran along it,” Malik adds, confirming my suspicions. There is no way those rogues are someone new who randomly passed by. Those are the same ones who keep gathering around that area and walking right along our borders, yet manage to keep evading us. “None of them said anything or tried to cross over?” I ask. “No,” he shakes his head and looks up from the map. “I think they already knew we were there, and I alerted Zane. We watched them, and at some point, they just watched us back before eventually, they left as if they had no business around here.” Malik explains. “We could try to hunt them down?” Zane suggests, but I wave him off. Just catching a group of rogues and torturing them won’t get us anywhere. The best case scenario is that we