Rejected: The Alpha's Fatal Mistake
The night before they were due to depart for the alliance summit, Wren found herself unable to sleep, drawn instead to the small shrine Nightshade had built, in the two years since her ascension, at the edge of the training clearing — a simple structure, moon-carved stone and a modest offering bowl, nothing like the grand ceremonial spaces Blackthorn maintained, but hers, built by her own pack's hands, meaning more to her than any grander architecture ever could.
She knelt there a long while, not quite praying in any formal sense, simply sitting with the weight of everything the coming weeks were likely to demand — a full alliance summit, a joint assault on a mountain stronghold older than m