*Moonlight Pack ---- Main Courtyard, Night*

The courtyard blazed with torchlight, flames hissing as a cold wind threaded through the trees. Armor clinked softly as Moonlight warriors ringed the square, spears rooted in the packed earth.

Amy hugged her arms around herself at the base of the Alpha's Hall steps. The air was brittle, but it wasn't the night's chill that made her shiver----it was the tension, the whispers of scouts that had gone missing, the rumor of Silver Fang ...