The security planning that followed consumed the better part of two days, and by the end of it I understood, more completely than I had before, the actual weight of what it meant to run a pack the size of Stormridge through a threat this large.
Rourke proposed a full contingency of enforcement wolves stationed at every entrance to the ceremonial grounds, with a second, less visible layer positioned in the surrounding woodland to intercept anyone attempting to approach from outside the expected perimeter. Bastian mapped the likely points of infiltration based on the communication patterns he had traced, cross referencing them against Crestfall's older, less defensible boundary lines. Damien moved through both plans with the focused, unhurried authority that I had come to recognize as his p
