Erin's POV
I heard the term Moon-touched for the first time at 15:42, not in a meeting or through an official channel, but through a private message from a contact who worked closely in a department that handled the majority of pack media.
Ordinarily, they were one of the quiet ones, the kind who barely ever posted and never speculated publicly because their usefulness depended on them not being seen as a source. The fact that they had reached out to me at all told me they were uneasy.
The message itself was badly constructed, crowded with qualifiers and unfinished thoughts that were all layered together like the sender couldn't decide which warning they wanted to get to me first. I read it once without reacting, then again more slowly, sifting through the words that couldn't be
