FULL POWER
The battle was not over when Garrett retreated.
His wolves did not receive the order quickly enough or did not follow it, in the case of six who had committed too fully to the eastern push to pull back cleanly. They pressed into Silverwood territory past the boundary line and the engagement became something closer and more demanding than the boundary work had been.
I had not fought inside the territory before.
The difference was extraordinary.
Outside the boundary, the anchoring power worked through contact hand to ground, feet to earth, the conversation initiated and then extended. Inside the territory, fully sealed and converged, it worked through presence alone. I did not need to touch the ground. I simply needed to be standing on it.
The six Ashvale wolves who had cros
