LYSSARA
For months, I had rehearsed this moment. The bond, the words, whether I'd hold together.
I hadn't thought about what it would feel like to watch him walk toward Thalric.
The report reached us at midday while Thalric and I were working through the morning's defense correspondence, and the wolf who delivered it gave it with the specific economy of someone who understood that the information it contained did not require embellishment.
Kaelrith's company had been detected at the southern boundary. Ironveil pack scent. Moving without ceremony. At their head, a single Alpha traveling without the formal declaration of approach that pack law required between territories and without his Beta and without any of the formal trappings that an Alpha making an official visit carried as a matt
