The communication arrives through the elder council's formal inter-pack messaging protocol on a Thursday morning, which means it has been logged, timestamped, and assigned a reference number before it reaches his desk. This is how official complaints travel between packs. It is also, Caden notes as he reads the reference number, how certain kinds of messages make themselves appear more neutral than they are.
The complaint concerns a boundary marker.
Specifically, a granite post on the eastern edge of Cresthaven's territorial line where it meets the disputed corridor that runs between Cresthaven and the Ironmere Pack's westernmost holding. The post, Dorian Voss contends in language that is careful and correct and entirely without apparent malice, has been repositioned since the last inter
