POV: Third Person / The Family Squad
(Twelve Hours Earlier)
The grand courtyard of the Alpha Estate was a scene of calculated, terrifying, and utterly silent preparation.
It was 1:00 AM, mere moments after the Blood Oath had been sworn in the subterranean War Room. The heavy, armored tactical vehicles of the Silver Moon were idling on the cobblestones, their engines a low, vibrating hum that barely masked the overwhelming tension suffocating the night air. The festival fires in the distance had been entirely extinguished. The music was dead. The pack was on absolute, martial-law lockdown.
Standing near the lead vehicle, wrapped in a heavy silver shawl to ward off the freezing autumn wind, was Eleanor, The mother of the Triplet Kings was a legendary Luna in her own right, a woman of
