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Chapter 89 : What We Owe Them

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The pack gathered in the central yard at noon. No one was late.

Jasmina stood at the front with Kira strapped to her chest in the wrap Lyanna had brought—soft grey cloth, tight enough that Kira couldn't slip, loose enough to breathe. It had been Damoew's when he was newborn. Lyanna hadn't said that. Jasmina had figured it out from the way she'd folded it.

The yard held maybe three hundred people. Pack members, alliance warriors, the healers who'd worked through the night. They formed a rough ci
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