Traitor's Son: The Raven Duet Book #2

Traitor's Son: The Raven Duet Book #2 By Hilari Bell

Prologue

Raven felt the change in the catalyst the moment the pouch left the girl’s hand, so sharply that he feared she’d died. She’d put so much of herself into it, her sudden absence from the song/scent that drifted along the magical currents of this world was shocking… but it wasn’t death he sensed. She still existed, the medicine bag existed, but she was no longer part of it.
What was happening?
If he’d had enough energy to change, he’d have hurtled himself into the wind and raced to see what was going on. But fighting off that last attack had drained him completely. All he could do was open himself, trying to feel every change in the catalyst’s signature.
If he hadn’t known the medicine pouch before it had bonded to her, he couldn’t have found it at all—so at least his enemies probably couldn’t find it either.
Because he was so focused, so rawly open to the contents of that small pouch, he felt the moment when another’s hand closed over it. A human, not one of his kind. That much he could tell even from this distance. But this human’s signature was different from the girl’s, dull and dense, with none of the bright connectedness that had drawn him to her.
This one might be difficult. This one might be impossible. Most humans were. But he had to try.
If he quit now, this world would not survive.