spill the beans

Before they'd left Auster, he'd sent his cousin Thalia to scout the eastern side of Boreas, and had reported the basics when she'd returned, but he had not yet gotten a detailed debriefing of the situation over there. He'd met with Abaven's alpha briefly, but he was certain that there was much more that the scout could tell him than he'd picked up on that short trip. Besides, he wanted to get a better feel for her abilities as a Shadow than he'd been able to get so far. He'd assigned Ina to mentor her as much for her ability to be silent and hidden as for her fighting ability, but he wanted to see where she was in her ability to observe others before he sent her out on specific missions. She was going to have a more difficult time than many of her peers, since she was effectively forging an entirely new path without any true mentor to guide her in it.

Lifting his head, he called for her to come to the lake territory.