Bubbles
I was the traitor everyone in the Flame Pack loathed.
I was the former Alpha's sister, and at the Flame Pack's darkest hour, I abandoned my mate and my baby daughter and defected to our enemy, the Dark Moon Pack.
I even killed my own brother and climbed over his corpse to become the Dark Moon Pack's Beta.
Two months ago, gravely wounded, I collapsed on the Flame Pack's border. The guards on patrol threw me into prison and tortured me for information.
I never said a word.
My former mate, Eugene Carter, now the Alpha of the Flame Pack, kept delaying my execution on the grounds that there wasn't enough evidence.
That angered everyone. Furious crowds took to the streets, marching and demanding the traitor be put to death at once.
So Eugene's current mate, Edna Parker, proposed putting me on trial with the Memory Crystal.
The Memory Crystal extracts a person's most important memories and projects them for everyone to see. The price is agony beyond human endurance, followed by death and the complete dissolution of the condemned person's soul.
For ten years, Edna had passed along countless messages that helped the Flame Pack resist the Dark Moon Pack. Her contributions had been immense.
Everyone supported her proposal, certain the Memory Crystal would prove my guilt once and for all.
Eugene agreed.
But none of them knew that the truth they were about to uncover with their own hands was far crueler than anything they had imagined.