“Well,” Duke Bordston said, “How is your little plan progressing?” Duke Greyfur once again kept his eyes focused elsewhere, trying to look as though he was lost in thought.
“Complicated,” Rained replied. “This is why I prefer the old fashioned way. It would have been so much easier for us to simply storm the castle. All these wolves living here, they’d never see it coming. Last attack in Cyrillest was over a hundred years ago. But King Winstian has these ideas… subterfuge he calls it.I don’t know, but he’s the King,” Rained shrugged.
“You should show his ideas more respect,” the Duke said. “Alpha Redblood was quite persuaded by it. I’m certain that the Wolfsbloods and their people will not see it coming.”
The stranger named Rianed snorted, then said, “the King is a brilliant mind. I jus
