Mated to the Alpha CEO
The Blight faded into legend, a story told to pups to remind them of what had been and what must never be again.
And at the center of the original training ground, beneath the ancient oak, a new statue was erected. Not of Lira — she would have hated that. A statue of a tree, its branches spreading wide, its roots sunk deep. Carved into its trunk were the words that had become the motto of the school, the Compact, the new world:
THE LIGHT IS NOT YOURS TO KEEP.
IT IS YOURS TO PASS ON.
Wolves came from every corner of the territories to see it. To remember. To learn. To plant their own seeds, whatever form those seeds might take.