Thetered To The Five Alphas
"So we just keep her in the keep? After her skin turned purple the second that rock touched the wood?"
"She didn't summon the raiding party, Silas," Kaelen grunted. The heavy Alpha stepped over a fallen bench, his thick boots crushing a piece of stale bread into the rushes as he approached the table. He picked up the broken chunk of black stone, turning it over in his calloused palm. "It's an anchor. Whoever took the river post brought this to find something." He paused, his muddy eyes shifting toward me. "Or someone."
Lucius didn't look at the stone. He walked around the far end of the long table, his dark boots making almost no sound on the flags. He stopped two feet from my chair, his red