Fifteen minutes later we came to a completely yellow house. I looked at Ash. He smiled. "Alora likes bright colors." Did she have to like something that bright? I shook myself and sneezed. Oh, well. This is a free town. Ash knocked and a woman of about thirty answered the door. "Hey, Alora," he said.
"Ashero, it's been a while," she said.
"It has," he agreed.
She looked at me. "This must be Sylvia."
~Nice to meet you.~ I said,
Alora frowned. "Aren't you going to shift back into a human?"
"She's staying in wolf form for a while but she felt this was too important to wait," Ash explained.
"What is?"
"Um…you should sit down before we tell you."
She sat in one of the porch chairs. "Okay."
~I'm afraid we come with bad news. The Duchess of Endania was killed this morning.~ I said then whined because the memory was still painful. Ash ran his fingers through my fur.
Alora's eyes filled with tears. "Her Grace is dead?"
