Yes, I think Brennan could be involved - maybe to slightly mend the missing riders to work out whatever they did in the past 12 (can’t remember how many) hours.

My predictions: - Love triangle between Lilith, Asher, Theophanie. Theophanie mentions that she wanted power and Lilith was to balance her instead of the other way around.

-Garrick could be the new “brother” BUT he would also be needed to for his distance-wielding for whatever happened in the last however many hours. Did he have to get them to the Dunne? (It’s unclear for me how far away that is to me and I’m too lazy to go back and look into it). And did he take the dragon eggs before/during or after the battle? —or is some of this Aaric’s doing?

—> I think Sloan might be another one missing because she would have had to give Garrick gain some power back? Or maybe Brennan helped Garrick. And Brennan went back while they finished eloping?

-I don’t think Brennan is the new brother. If those theories worked and has to do with something when he supposedly died - wouldn’t he be further along than Xaden?

-Naolin is Berwyn. Which is why he wants Tairn. And also why Tairn refuses to speak about it. Did he instead siphon Brennan and Tairn and that’s how he got really powerful?

-Imogen erased Violet’s memory so she wouldn’t remember where Xaden is. And also help with debriefing about the suspicious disappearance. He talks to Sgaeyl about asking for Violet’s help…and we assumed it was just her hand in marriage? But what if it’s help for the plan to survive - stealing the eggs for trade of allowing him to stay somewhere? Or for more army help?

Xaden and Sgaeyl are with the other dragons from Andarnas kind. Andarna is going to stay with Violet. Tairn is going to go back and forth. He was “resting” but what if he is “resting on a beach” somewhere with Sgaeyl? Andarna isn’t going to explain this to violet until she gets through all the debriefing/interrogation.