Chapter 149. Eryndor’s Secret Message

Celeste’s POV

Luneth traced her finger across the parchment map until she stopped at a location that immediately struck a chord deep within me—a spot I knew better than my own paws. It lay surprisingly close to the territory of the Crimson Howl pack. Wait a second… that meant the Emberfang pack’s village was almost adjacent to the Crimson Howl’s domain. How had this escaped my notice all these years?

Even though I’d spent so much of my life in these parts, I never realized another settlement lay practically at our doorstep. Perhaps the guardian spirit of the Emberfang pack was exceptionally vigilant—far more reliable than our own squirrel, or the Stormclaw pack’s slithering lizard, or the Ironshade pack’s mischievous monkey.

Whatever entity protected the Emberfangs, it clearly wielded powerful magic.

Luneth cleared her throat to draw my attention back to her words. “All right, then. Our objective is straightforward: we travel to the Emberfang pack vil