"He can't actually do this," Bianca said, pacing the cramped confines of Mabel's cottage, disbelief and fury tangled together in her voice. "Declare an entire bloodline a threat and authorize extermination? That's not law, that's just that's a purge with better paperwork."
"That's exactly what it is," Corvin said, voice flat. His shoulder was bandaged, but pain still flickered in his eyes every time he moved. "Same words the council used sixty years ago. It's just history repeating itself, only now it sounds fancier."
"The council vote isn't unanimous by tradition," Kaelan said, working through the political mechanics with visible urgency. "It requires majority support from the assembled pack representatives, not simply my father's decree. If enough voices oppose it"
"Your father's spen
