Chapter Nine
The plan>>>>>>>
Kira’s POV
Kira stood up from the bed, wrapping her robe around her, walking towards the window.
The grand windows of the palace overlooked the busy activity going on within the palace and also outside. Servants in crisp livery, emerald-green with the golden Kiraal crest, darted across the cobblestone courtyards, their footsteps muffled by the crunch of autumn leaves. The air carried the scent of damp earth, late-blooming jasmine, and woodsmoke from the kitchens, where breakfast for the court simmered in silver tureens.
Beyond the palace walls, the city rose in tiered splendor… terra-cotta roofs, spires of pale stone, and the perpetual haze of incense from the Temple of diverse wolf packs. You could hear the howling from afar of y
