When the door shut behind him, the silence returned, thicker than before. I let out a slow breath, leaning back until the chair creaked under my weight.
My gaze drifted to the maps on my table, tracing the northern border in my mind, replaying every detail of the reports we’d gotten so far. There were too many gaps, too many unknowns.
---
FAYE
I didn’t really know where I was going, but I was tired of being cooked up in that chamber.
I wasn’t paying attention to the hallways, the turns, or whether I was even supposed to be in this part of the pack house.
My feet were moving, but my mind was somewhere else entirely...looping over the last few hours like a song I couldn’t turn off.
The day had been… messy. It had started badly enough—waking from that damn dream again. I’d told myse
