Rejected, Not Broken
Avery sat beside me, Ember bundled against her chest, asleep and blissfully unaware that the future of two packs was being discussed over her head.
Stoneveil’s alpha spoke plainly.
“Our land no longer sustains us the way it once did,” he said. “Not just in resources. In cohesion.”
He did not name Cade. He didn’t have to.
“The fractures were already there,” he continued. “What happened only made them visible.”
I watched Avery from the corner of my eye. She was listening—not bracing, not guarding. Present.
“We’ve discussed rebuilding,” one of their elders added. “But rebuilding something this compromised would take years. And we would remain vulnerable in the meantime.”
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