Chapter 68 Pack Lands

• They reached the edge of Rowan territory on the third day.
• Kaden felt it before he saw it. A change in the air, something thicker and older than the empty Marches they’d crossed. The trees here were real trees, not the bone-white horrors of the Thicket. They were tall and dark, their roots deep, their branches blocking out most of the sky.
• Alina sat up straighter in the saddle. Something shifted in her expression, subtle but real.