"There is one male and one female, both in the latter half of their teen years." Taeyang began. "They were dropped at our doorstep three days ago with an untraceable note, simply saying 'For You'. We don't know who turned them or why they left the fledglings to us, but perhaps it was one of the other covens who wanted no more in their own." He knew that was a long-shot, but his only other thought was that someone else in his own coven may have made them and dropped them off; of the three Avalai had found, none of them chose to return to the castle, and all but renounced their coven. One would never sire a fledgling, so it was down to two. But that was only one line of thinking...

"The girl has no background I could find, yet her clothes are fairly nice, so I'm to assume she was a wanderer, a nomad. The boy I traced back to his family, but after observation they seem to not have even given his absence any thought." Taeyang tried not to let it show how troubling that idea was to him.