I spent the next two days thinking about the Council's offer while life at the pack house slowly returned to normal and people were rebuilding the damaged buildings while others were training or going about their daily routines like the attack had never happened.

Penelope found me in the library on the second day sitting with the grimoire open in front of me even though I wasn't really reading it and she sat down across from me without saying anything for a minute.

"You're overthinking this," ...