The wellspring agreement was formally signed within the week — cautious, heavily caveated, watched over by representatives from both courts, but real. Ravenna should have felt lighter than she did.
Instead, she felt watched.
It started as small things. A wolf patrol reassigned without her father's direct order. A pack elder who'd voted to strip Hask of his authority found her horse deliberately lamed the morning of a council session. Whispers, careful and low, among wolves who'd never openly supported Hask but had clearly absorbed more of his particular worldview than anyone had noticed while he still held power.
She brought her concerns to Corin, who was still under guard but had, in the weeks since his confession, become something closer to a reluctant ally than a prisoner.
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