Rise of the Switched Alpha Queen
The red screen vanished, replaced by the dark, high-tier interface of an underground rogue trading network.
The Crescent Ledger. If your wolf can hunt it, we can buy it.
I let out a dry, breathy laugh at the ridiculous tagline. Every dark-web pack market thought it was legendary.
I scrolled past four listings for illegally harvested silver-root and a stolen alpha-line lineage seal, looking for the quick exit button. I was bored. I only used the Ledger to track border movements, not to shop. But before I could close the browser, the wolf-head icon in the top corner of my screen began flashing a vivid, aggressive violet.