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The Gathering

Auteur: Nicolet Hale
last update Date de publication: 2026-04-28 04:26:42

Friday evening.

The hall filled the way it always filled. People coming in from the grounds and the packhouse and the east wing and finding their usual spots and the particular hum of a pack settling into its collective self before something happened.

Kade was near the front.

He had been near the front at every gathering since I arrived and I had come to understand this was his particular way of showing up for things that mattered. He showed up early and stood where he could see everything and
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