Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
Kade didn't have an answer for that, which had become something of a pattern in conversations like this one, and eventually Torren clapped him once on the shoulder and left him to the fire and his own thoughts, which turned out to be far less peaceful company than the silence had promised.
They reached the summit grounds by midday on the second day, and the forecourt was already filling when they rode in, banners marking out each pack's claimed ground the way they always did — Ashborne's colors dominant as host, Ironfang's raised near the stables, the fifth power's more modest presence toward the back, delegates and honor guards and the general low hum of five packs' worth of politics beginn