**ATTICUS**
The pack does not slow down once panic settles in, it sharpens instead, every instinct turning inward and outward at the same time as Luna Sophia and Alpha David step fully into the search like this is a war rather than a disappearance. I have never seen Sophia like this before, her calm precision edged with something fierce and personal, and it hits me hard to realise that Bella’s absence has cracked something open in her that does not intend to close quietly.
She believes Daniel is involved.
She does not say it lightly or emotionally, and she never says it in front of the pack, but in the quiet spaces between meetings, in the clipped efficiency of her instructions, in the way her eyes track every report that crosses her desk, it is unmistakable. Daniel is her focus, not as
