It started in the laundry room. Selene found this out later, through the particular way information reached her in Ironmoon, not through direct telling but through the accumulated texture of small things that changed and pointed in the same direction. A conversation that stopped when she walked into a room. Two pack members near the eastern corridor who looked at her with a quality of curiosity that was different from the ordinary uncertainty she had become used to. A younger wolf at breakfast who stared at her for slightly too long and then looked away when Selene met her eyes. She had noticed all of it on Wednesday morning and had filed it without conclusion because she did not have enough data yet. By Wednesday afternoon she had enough data. She was in the library when Zara came in

