Chapter 138 preparing for the pack run They came in waves: muddy boots and laughter, the scrape of chairs, a child’s high giggle braided with the low mutter of elders, until the common room smelled of pine smoke and stew and half a dozen different colognes. The pack house was bone-warm, lanterns guttering on iron hooks, long tables set end-to-end like a single unwieldy altar. Celeste stood at the head, the hem of her coat still wet where she’d walked the perimeter; the hush felt like a thing the room had to learn again.Remy moved beside her as if he belonged to the architecture—easy, unshowy, the kind of presence that made arguments soften by accident. He took her hand in a quick, familiar way; the grip steadied her more than it steadied him. Around them, the pack’s faces arranged into private maps: children clustered near Mircea and Ana, older hunters at the far table whispering about routes, and Laleh—always Laleh—eyes bright and alert as a sentinel at the doorway.“Thank you,” Ce
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