The night the territory split
(Kael) Kael had spent years building a territory that could survive anything. War. Famine. Internal revolt. Rogue uprisings. He had built systems strong enough to withstand instability because instability was inevitable in wolf territories. Emotion made wolves unpredictable. Power made them dangerous. Structure was the only thing that kept entire regions from tearing themselves apart. And now— for the first time since becoming Alpha— Kael could feel control slipping through his hands in ways strength alone could not stop. The war chamber beneath the central sector remained active long past midnight. Advisors moved in and out carrying patrol reports while eastern surveillance maps continued updating across the long stone table carved into the centre of the room. Three more outer
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