KAEL POINT OF VIEW

News travels differently when it carries death.

It does not arrive quietly. It does not slip in unnoticed like trade routes or border disputes. Death, especially the death of an Alpha moves like wildfire through dry land, fast, hungry and distorting everything it touches.

I knew before the messenger even reached the war hall.

I felt it in the shift of the air. On the way the guards straightened too quickly when I passed. In the tension coiling through Moonfang’s ...