She discovered, over the course of four weekly visits, that Kade's camp in the morning was a different creature from Kade's camp at any other time of day.At night it was watchful — the specific alert quality of a well-run military camp that had not yet fully transitioned to peacetime and was not entirely sure it should. In the afternoons it was functional, purposeful, the dense activity of wolves with things to do. At midday it was loud in the way of a community rather than an army, which she was still adjusting to, the Ironfang wolves being considerably more demonstrative in aggregate than the Silverblood wolves, who tended toward a focused quiet that she had always found comfortable and was now, occasionally, finding slightly limiting.But in the morning, before the full day engaged, the camp had a quality she had not expected and could not quite name.It was on the third visit that she first saw it clearly.She had woken early — habit, always habit — and dressed in the still-dark
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