Kael.
As early as possible before the morning sun turned into full sun, I slipped out of her bed and headed straight up to the border.
The border outpost smelled like metal and sweat. I walked through the tunnel quietly through the stone walls that had taken months to carve out.
The pack slept peacefully, unaware of the army I'd been building beneath their feet, unaware of the war that would arrive at their doorstep in less than three months.
They couldn't know, at least not now.
If they knew Lord Druk was coming, that he'd been planning this invasion for years, that my father had seen it and tried to warn the council they would panic. They would scatter, and they would make themselves easy targets.
So I kept everything hidden. The weapons, the trained soldiers, the underground netw
