Kael's Viewpoint

The news Jake brought was like a slow-acting poison that killed our hope. The pack was physically healthy and doing well under the Anima Mundi's influence, but a spiritual illness was spreading. Lack of interest. Lack of energy. This was not the violent chaos that the Others had tried before; it was a quiet suffocation. They weren't taking the color from our world by force; they were doing it in a sneaky, sneaky way.

In the lively, chaotic center of the Sunken Grove, the ...