*Marcus*
The hours passed in a whirlwind. I went back to the place where Arealla and Jason had been, taking Ben and Liana with me. But there was nothing to be found there.
Liana had found traces of a wolf that wasn’t part of our pack, but that was all that she had found. It was enough for her to make the assumption that Arealla had been taken.
Given everything that Ben had learned, everything I had seen, there was nothing else that could be surmised.
And yet.
There had still been the niggling feeling at the back of my mind. What if she really had run away?
But then the dream happened. And it slotted everything perfectly into place. It explained every single detail that I had been confused about, and it gave me a way forward.
I was able to see her, and she was mine, in a way that I never thought could possibly happen. She glued the pieces of my fallen world and gave me sense, gave me reason. Having her the way we had only made me want to have her back in flesh with me.