KAI POV
We spent the next three hours planning in Elara's office, mapping out strategy like we were preparing for actual war. Which, I supposed, we were. Just not the kind with clear battle lines and uniformed enemies. This war was information and exposure and trying to turn enough wolves against the Council before they could eliminate us.
"We need allies." Elara had her mother's journal open, cross-referencing names with my father's research. "Packs who'll stand with us when we go public. Who won't immediately side with the Council."
"That's a short list." I'd been making notes. "Most packs are Council loyalists. Either because they benefit from the current structure or because they're too scared to challenge it."
"Then we target the scared ones." She looked up, those silver-gray eyes
