Too Curvy For The Crown
There never had been.
Then howls rose at the border.
Long, layered, echoing howls, dozens of throats at once, and every wolf in the clearing froze, because those were not Blackmoor voices. The gates swung open and black vehicles rolled through, flanked by warriors with the royal crest on their shoulders, and the entire pack dropped to its knees around me.
The warriors forced me down with them, my knees hitting dirt, the loose cuff swinging from my wrist, and my heart was slamming without knowing why yet.