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The Ruling

Penulis: Liora Ravensong
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-31 18:48:50

The conflict had been building for three weeks before it arrived at Moonspire.

The Greymere and Ashford packs had shared a water source boundary for sixty years and had managed the sharing with the specific, low-grade, ongoing friction that significant resources and imprecise historical agreements produced between packs whose relationship with each other was not quite alliance and not quite rivalry but the specific, unstable territory between those categories.

Three weeks ago, G

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