Selene found Kael in the training yard four days after the official announcement went out to the neighboring packs confirming her as the future Luna of Mooncrest.
He was standing at the fence with his arms folded, watching the younger warriors spar in the late afternoon light. He had been doing a lot of that lately. Standing somewhere quiet, watching something that did not require him to think, while something else sat heavy and unnamed in his chest.
"You have been distracted," Selene said, coming up beside him.
"I have a pack to run," he said.
"You have always run it well," she said. Her voice was light, easy, the tone she used when she wanted something to sound like a compliment rather than a question.
He did not answer. He watched one of the younger wolves get knocked flat on his b
