Adrian's POVThe trackers returned before the moon rose.I was in my study when Kael, my lead tracker, knocked twice and waited. I had not slept. I had sat at my desk with a glass of untouched wine and worked methodically through everything I knew about the events of the last twelve hours, arranging them and rearranging them the way you work a knot — gently, with attention, without force, waiting for the place where it would loosen."Come in."Kael entered. He was a lean man, older than me, with the particular quietness of wolves who spent more time in the forest than in company. He carried his hat in both hands."Report," I said.He set his hat on the edge of the desk and spread a rough sketch on the surface — a map of the road between the pack and the estate, with markings at several points."Ambush point here," he said, indicating a narrow stretch where the road curved through dense forest. "Smart location. Road curves twice within fifty yards, so the carriage would have slowed. Mu
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