CHOSEN LAST
I asked, dread and curiosity tangling together within my chest.
Eleanor reached into a small bag she carried, withdrawing an old, weathered book, its leather cover cracked with age. “This,” she said, holding it out toward me. “Redhollow’s true founding history, recorded honestly, without the sanitized version passed down through generations of formal leadership. Your grandmother was meant to protect this book, to ensure its contents remained available should this pack ever face a crisis significant enough to require returning to its original founding principles.”
I took the book carefully, my hands trembling slightly as I opened it to find pages filled with careful, ancient handwriting, deta