Kael Kael’s chamber held the weight of unease as he gathered his trusted circle—Riley, Darwin, and the two warriors who had been present during the unsettling discovery in the woods. The dancing torches cast in moving shadows the walls in the fireplace of the sun which had gone down hours ago. On the street, the night air was clean, and the leaves whispered the untold secrets of the forest. Each member of the pack goes out their day without knowing the danger lurking around. Inside, tension gripped the room like an iron vice. Kael’s presence dominated the space, his golden eyes gleaming with authority and a trace of something darker, worry, perhaps, though he would never admit it aloud. His bass voice shattered the quiet, it pierced the air like a knife. “The body we found wasn’t just a

