Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
"So it's Nightshade, Ironfang, and Blackthorn, functionally, until something changes their minds."
"Three packs is more than most threats this old have ever had to face at once." Kade's hand found hers, steady. "It's a start. And knowing what we're facing now — the Moonless, the prophecy, the pattern in the incursions — that's worth more than a dozen packs stumbling in blind."
That evening, Wren sat with Ezra's old book again, working through what fragments of the script she could recognize now, six years of instinctive power use finally getting matched against actual, ancient instruction.