He tells her about the training camp in pieces, over the walk back from the trail.They have finished the run and they are walking the last half mile to the gate at the cooling-down pace, and the compound lights are visible ahead of them through the trees, and the night has the particular quality that late October nights have in Ironveil, cold and sharp-edged and completely quiet.She does not push for more. She has learned that Kade says things when he has decided to say them and not before, and the deciding is real, not delay. What he tells her comes at his own pace and she runs beside it without pulling.He tells her the camp structure had been designed to funnel the strongest early-ranked candidates into a feeder system for specific pack positions. Not the Alpha King's Elite program, not then, that came later. A mid-level structure, politically managed, where the candidates became arguments in territory negotiations between packs.He tells her his father had not known this when he
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