The feral wolf arrived in chains.

Every Alpha in the alliance watched.

Elara hated that part.

Not the chains.

The audience.

The wolf had once been male, maybe thirty, broad-shouldered even in animal form. Black lunar lines ran from his throat down his chest

The compromised patrol route was changed twice.

Silas’s wolves found it anyway.

That removed coincidence.

Someone inside the alliance was feeding him information.

Kael reacted exactly as Elara expected.

He tightened access.

Split reports.

Changed mes

Mira spread three maps across the archive table.

None matched.

Elara frowned.

“That is useful.”

“It is,” Mira said.

“How?”

“Maps disagree where people wanted something forgotten.”

Kael sat across from them with a bandage around his temple.

The heale