Time slips by faster than anyone notices, and before long, the shadows stretch long across the ground, swallowing the light of the day. Darkness settles like a breath held in suspense.
While Eryx and Theo remain outside, caught deep in the urgency of planning for tonight's ceremony, Morgana slips quietly into Theo's room.
Her movements are precise, her hands trembling only slightly as she lifts the file that had been delivered to him earlier, the file that contains Mira's pregnancy test results and every other detail about the child she's carrying.
She doesn't hesitate. She hides the file under her coat and disappears back out into the hallway like a ghost.. gone before anyone could think to ask what she was doing there.
Outside, wolves from every allied and neighboring pack begin to gather in and around the Thornevail packhouse compound.
The grounds are filled with the scent of foreign wolves, the sound of laughter and conversation rising through the darkening air.
