Chapter 102

The camp bustled with activity the following day. Khelt sent out runners to bring back the members of the pack who were still abroad, and the outcrop was alight with talk of what had happened.

Hawk and Essie’s deaths seemed to have had a galvanizing effect on the Moon People, and no one was content to relax while the lingering threat of retribution hung over them.

Hunters trained down on the plains, tussling without the usual boisterous aggression as their superiors watched over them.

The craftspeople worked hard on fresh new tools and javelins, despite the pack’s stores already being full of perfectly serviceable ones.

Many of the seers had taken to the spirit world, joining together in group trances in hopes of unclouding the tenuous future that lay before them.

Once she had bathed and made breakfast for Wren, however, there was only one person to whom Netya’s thoughts turned. She hurried to Adel’s chamber to ask after Caspian, finding the den mother