Silvia. Dawn was eleven days old when I got the threat. It was not from hunters. It was not from Elder Colins loyalists even though I had been watching out for both. This was something and in some ways more dangerous. A letter. The letter was delivered to the pack house through mail addressed in handwriting I did not know. It did not have a return address. Antonio brought it to me without opening it. He put it on the desk in my study. My study is a room that faces south. It used to be a storage space. It smells of cedar and old paper now. The room has windows that look out over my mothers garden. I chose this room because it is small and it was not my fathers study. My fathers study felt too big and too formal for the kind of leader I wanted to be. I was feeding Dawn when Anton

