Page 14 of When the Moon Hatched (The Moonfall #1)

H aedeon found me in his sleigh just before the aurora set.

I thought he’d be happy to see me. Instead, he said he was going to take me straight home to Arithia in a big growly voice I’ve never heard him use before. But when the aurora rose, he boiled me tea, packed our things, and then we kept going in the same direction.

I think he forgave me a little bit because he gave me a butterberry chew this slumber after we ate some felt-ringed fungus soup. Haedeon didn’t finish his bowl or eat his chew, but he did spend time shaping a dragonscale blade.

He told me we’ll be there in three aurora cycles. That we’ll spend one slumber in the hatching hut on the outskirts of Netheryn before he leaves at aurora rise right when the mahmi Moonplumes go off to hunt. That I’m not to leave the hatching hut until he returns or three slumbers have passed without him.

Seems a bit silly to me since I didn’t hide in his sleigh to sit in a hut and eat butterberry chews …

I came to get my own Moonplume egg.