Spring had fully arrived by the time the delegation from the Northern Ridge Pack came to Frostfall.
They came officially, with the formal advance notice of a diplomatic visit, their Alpha and two council representatives and, notably, the woman who had come to Elowen at the installation ceremony fourteen months ago, whose name she had since learned was Teren, and who was traveling now not as an informal presence at an assembly but as a formal member of the Northern Ridge's newly established wellness committee.
Elowen met them in the official reception room with Alaric and Kael, the three of them constituting the relevant leadership for a visit of this nature. She had prepared for it in the way she prepared for things that mattered, knowing the background thoroughly, having read the docume
