Chapter 9

 

Birds chirped in happy song as the sun rose over the horizon. The moon valley slowly filling with light as the sun of a new day crested the top of the valley. It was silent, many of the packs had yet to rise from their beds, unaware of the strategic training and planning that they were about to undertake.

Adelaide continued to gaze forward in silence as she watched the morning rise, the last remnants of the moon had long since passed. She’d watched her eye slowly disappear beneath the hills and light fill the sky. Sleep was always hard to come by since the pack wars. Too many memories, too many opportunities for visions to cloud her mind.

The territory she had taken for herself was high atop the highest hill in the valley. It had been hers since her first years of training as the Conduit and it had always brought great peace to her. The view out of the whole valley brought a reflective experience that allowed her to process her bodies demands and her beast’s emotions. It also