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00:00I, Kane Drexer, reject Windhale as my mate.
00:05He rejected me in front of 300 people.
00:07Then my family forgot my name for a year.
00:10Tonight, I forgot theirs back.
00:12I rolled my bike down the gravel with the engine dead,
00:14past the gatehouse, past the cameras my brother installed and never once checked.
00:18At the end of the drive, I stopped and looked back at the house I was born in.
00:2222 windows, every one of them lit.
00:24Anger, not one of them looking for me.
00:26Goodbye. You won't miss me.
00:28I'll miss you anyway. That's the part that makes me pathetic.
00:31Then I kick the Ducati awake and let it scream.
00:34My name is Ren Hale, the fourth child and only daughter of Alpha Marcus Hale and Luna Eleni Hale of
00:40the Iron Vale pack.
00:41300 years of bloodline, three older brothers, and a father who used to call me his last good thing.
00:47Used to.
00:47One year ago tonight, at my 17th birthday, my mother covered the pack hall in Ingo and Otrud because I
00:53refused to wear pink.
00:54Black candles, dark plums, my grandmother's silver.
00:58Four months of planning for a girl who hates parties and she got every single detail right.
01:03Then Kane Drexen walked in, heir to the Drexen pack, my mate.
01:07I'd scented him at 15 and spent two years counting down to the night he could claim me in front
01:11of the packs.
01:12He stood under my mother's black candles, looked at me in my green dress, and said it loud enough for
01:17300 wolves to hear.
01:18I, Kane Drexen, reject Wind Hale as my mate.
01:22I felt the bond snap like a rib.
01:24I went down on one knee on my own birthday floor, and the hall was so silent I could hear
01:28the candles burning.
01:30Here's the part I still can't explain.
01:32Nobody moved.
01:33300 people watched an Alpha's daughter get discarded, and my family stood there like a row of statues.
01:38I woke the next morning and the house had stopped speaking to me.
01:42Not cold.
01:43Cold would have been a relationship.
01:45I walked into the kitchen and my mother looked directly through my forehead like I was a window with a
01:49nice view.
01:50Morning, Mom.
01:52Nothing.
01:53Dad, do you need me at the 9 o'clock?
01:55His office door closed.
01:57And when I reached for the mind link, the thing every wolf in this house is born into, the warm
02:02crowded hum of five voices that had been in my skull since I could walk.
02:05I found a wall.
02:07They cut me out of the pack link.
02:09Do you understand what that is?
02:11It's not silence.
02:14It's being buried alive inside your own head, while everyone you love talks over the top of your coffin.
02:21Then it was a bad month.
02:23Then it was 200 breakfasts alone at a table set for six.
02:27I broke a mug at my father's feet once, on purpose, just to see if he'd look up.
02:36He stepped over the pieces.
02:38That was the night I stopped being their daughter, and started being an observer in their house.
02:43And an observer sees everything.
02:47I know which stairwell has no camera.
02:50I know every patrol rotation on this land.
02:57Which is how I'm crossing the county line right now at 82 miles an hour with everything I own strapped
03:02to my back.
03:04I'm not running away.
03:07I'm reporting for duty.
03:10Eleven days ago, a black envelope arrived at a P.O. box my family doesn't know exist.
03:15One card.
03:17A silver crown.
03:18Three lines.
03:20And four nights ago, something happened that I still can't explain.
03:24A voice woke me at 11.03 p.m. singing inside my skull.
03:28Happy birthday, Rend.
03:30You're a week early.
03:31No, sweetheart.
03:32You were born a week late.
03:34They've been celebrating the wrong day your entire life.
03:36By sunrise, my family will have a house with an empty room in it.
03:40It'll take them seven more days to notice.
03:49Let me tell you how a girl disappears inside a pack house with 41 wolves in it.
03:54Slowly, then all at once.
03:55Month one, I still fought.
03:59I ambushed my mother outside her study and made my voice bright and easy the way she likes it.
04:04Mom, can we do our Sunday?
04:06Just us.
04:07Spa, terrible movies, that greasy diner you pretend you hate.
04:10Since I was nine, one day a week had belonged to me.
04:12She used to write down everything I said.
04:14Every color, every song, every stupid opinion.
04:17That's how she knew about the Indigo.
04:18I'm busy.
04:19She said, already walking.
04:21I asked her 12 times over three months.
04:23I have the count in my phone because I'm the kind of broken that keeps receipts.
04:27Then she stopped answering at all.
04:29Month two, I gave up on my brothers.
04:32Declan, who taught me to fight dirty, who let me sleep on his floor after nightmares,
04:37physically moved me out of a doorway with two hands on my shoulders, like furniture, and kept walking.
04:42Month three, my training stopped.
04:44When I asked why, he looked at the floor and said,
04:47Orders, Miss Hale.
04:48Miss Hale.
04:50He'd called me Rennie since I was six.
04:52Month four, I found the boathouse on the north edge of the territory.
04:56One room, a wood stove, a window that looks at nothing but water.
05:00I swept it out, dragged a mattress in, stole a kettle from a pantry.
05:03Nobody even veratrix.
05:06Let's see how long it takes them to notice.
05:09Spoiler, I lived there eight months.
05:11Eight months.
05:12Nobody knocked on my bedroom door in the main house.
05:15Nobody wondered why my closet emptied one hanger at a time.
05:18The night I broke was the night of the Alliance dinner.
05:21I put on the green dress.
05:23I sat down at the table.
05:24My father raised his glass and said,
05:26To my children, Asher, Declan, Colton.
05:30And then he named three, Asher, Declan, Colton.
05:34The fourth chair was occupied.
05:36The fourth child was holding a fork.
05:40I got up, walked out, and threw up in a hedge in a $2,000 dress.
05:44That was the night I went down to the archive.
05:46Every wolf in a founding pack has a registry file.
05:49Births, rankings, betrothments, the whole obscene ledger.
05:52Mine was in the third cabinet, thin as a napkin.
05:54I opened it under a dying bump at 2 a.m.
05:56Last entry.
05:56My father's handwriting.
05:57Dated my 17th today.
05:59Rejected by Drexen Air.
06:00No further action.
06:00That was it.
06:01I sat on the archive floor holding eight words and understood,
06:04Finally, completely, that I was a line item.
06:07So I took the file, walked out with it, and no one stopped me.
06:11Because no one saw me.
06:13Because I wasn't there.
06:16Back at the boathouse, I opened my laptop and typed the name
06:18Wolves in our world only ever whispered.
06:20The Raven Guard.
06:21Every pack on this continent bows to one bloodline.
06:24The thorns, the lichen crown.
06:25And the crown keeps something that isn't an army.
06:2750 applicants a year, taken at 18.
06:28I sat up 11 straight nights doing their assessments.
06:30Logic, memory, pack law.
06:32Then I hit submit and waited to be rejected.
06:34Again.
06:3611 days later, a black envelope with a silver crown.
06:40Applicant W. Hale, accepted.
06:43Report on your 18th birthday.
06:45Tell no one.
06:47I laughed out loud in an empty boathouse.
06:50Who exactly did they think I had left?
06:57The voice came four nights before I left.
07:0011.03 PM.
07:02Singing.
07:03A woman's voice, low and warm.
07:05I sat up in the dark with my heart trying to climb out of my throat.
07:09Happy birthday, Rin.
07:12You're a week early.
07:13You were born a week late.
07:15Your mother told the registry to write the day she'd already sent the announcements for 18 years of the wrong
07:20birthday.
07:21Who are you?
07:23Nyx.
07:23I'm your wolf.
07:26I've been asleep.
07:27I'm not anymore.
07:28Then something strange happened.
07:30I felt less alone than I had in a year.
07:33A voice in my head was better company than five people who share my blood.
07:37Nyx isn't a fantasy.
07:38I need you to understand that.
07:43By the second night I could hear the housekeeper's radio from 400 yards through two stone walls.
07:48The groundskeeper walked past and I heard, clear as a bell.
07:52Poor kid.
07:53Nobody's fed that girl in months and he never opened his mouth.
07:56Hearing that, I nearly threw up.
07:59It settles by the end of the first week.
08:02It always does.
08:04How would you know?
08:05Because you're not the first.
08:07Give them one chance.
08:09One dinner.
08:10Sit at that table and let me look at them.
08:13If I'm wrong about what I'm seeing, you can spend the rest of your life hating them.
08:17So I put on a clean shirt and walked into my family's dining room for the first time in four
08:22months.
08:23Here's the part that finished me.
08:25The housekeeper set a plate in front of me.
08:27And she wasn't surprised.
08:28Not a blink.
08:30My father came in on a call.
08:32My mother came in with three binders.
08:35My brothers came in arguing about fabric samples of all the stupid things.
08:39And then all three of them went adultly, unnaturally quiet and started tapping at their phones.
08:44Three wolves who share a mind link, sitting at one table, texting.
08:48Because they'd cut me out of the link, and they'd stopped speaking out loud.
08:52I ate every bite. I don't know why.
08:55Maybe I wanted to be able to say I gave them the whole hour.
08:58At minute 58, my mother looked up, right at me.
09:01One full second, her eyes on my face.
09:04My whole stupid starving heart lifted.
09:06Colton, tell Asha the West Clearing's book.
09:11I stood up before dessert.
09:15I'm sorry, my girl.
09:16I don't understand them either.
09:19Nick said quietly, as I walked out into the dark.
09:23I packed in nine minutes.
09:26Everything I own fits in one bag.
09:28I left three things.
09:29The green dress.
09:31The pack crazed ring.
09:32And a note on my mother's pillow.
09:35I waited a year.
09:36Don't come looking.
09:37W.
09:39Then I crossed the county line.
09:40At 12.14am on my real 18th birthday.
09:44And I did not cry.
09:47200 miles later, I pulled into a gas station under a buzzing yellow light.
09:51And did the one thing I'd promised myself I wouldn't.
09:55I checked my phone.
09:56Five hours gone.
09:58A year absent.
09:59Surely.
10:01No texts.
10:02No voicemails.
10:03Zero missed calls.
10:08I laughed until my ribs hurt.
10:11Then laughed until I was crying.
10:17Then I dropped the phone in the trash.
10:19Got back on my bike.
10:20And rode toward the only people on Earth.
10:22Who had ever put my name in writing.
10:25Six days to reach the Raven Guard.
10:28I didn't know that on the 7th.
10:30The day they thought was my birthday.
10:32My mother would walk into an empty bedroom.
10:35And start screaming.
10:39AHHHHH!
10:40AHHHHHH!
10:41AHHHHHH!
10:4563 missed calls in 11 minutes.
10:48Mom.
10:48Dad.
10:49Asher.
10:50Declan.
10:51Mom.
10:51Mom.
10:52Mom.
10:53372 days of silence.
10:55and now the burner phone i bought in ohio wouldn't stop shaking in my hand i sat on my
11:00bike two miles from the raven guard gate and watched it light up like a slot machine
11:05you could answer you could hear what she has to say i turned it face down in my jacket here's
11:10the thing about the number 63 it isn't love it's panic love shows up on day two i rode the
11:16last
11:16two miles and stopped at a watt iron gate with a silver crown worked into it the guard came out
11:23of the booth took one look at me and physically laughed deliveries at the south gate sweetheart
11:28i took off my helmet i'm five foot five with blonde hair to my waist and a face that gets
11:33me carded
11:34buying energy drinks i handed him the black envelope without a word he read it read it twice then he
11:40keyed his radio in a completely different voice director halloway w hale is at the north gate
11:47behind me three trucks of new recruits went dead silent
11:53enjoy this nick's heard you'll be hearing that sentence for the rest of your life
11:58the raven guard campus is 160 acres of stone and glass owned by the thorn crown
12:0450 of us in the intake year by the end of the trial fortnight there will be 35
12:11director halloway met me on the front steps holding my file like a man handed a live grenade
12:16with a bow on it miss hale you'll be skipping the trial fortnight 50 heads turned
12:25sir your assessment scores are the highest recorded in this organization's history
12:29not this year ever you'll spend two weeks with instructor brand instead 49 people looked at me
12:36like i killed something they loved instructor brand is 60 built like a retaining wall and in 14 days
12:44he never once told me i did well he tested my recall he tested pact law three centuries of treaties
12:51arbitration precedent blood debt statutes on day nine he stopped mid-question stared at me and said
12:58who taught you this my father by accident every hour i sat quiet in marcus hale's office as a kid
13:06filing papers fetching coffee listening to him negotiate with monsters he thought he was babysitting me
13:14he was training his own replacement the other recruits ate together so i ate with them it took four
13:21days to want to drown all of them parent kestra who informed a room of 50 people but the little
13:27one
13:27only got a pass because someone at the top wanted her and he said may i bite her behave
13:34on the last morning they packed us into the auditorium halloway walked onto the stage behind him without
13:39ceremony came a man in a sharp suit who owns the loyalty of every wolf on this continent and the
13:45room made a sound
13:46like all the air had left it augustus thorn the lichen king today you learn whether you belong to the
13:53raven guard i'll announce three team captains then his majesty will name this year's unit commander
14:00fiona orson halloway read the captains a pause
14:06hail
14:07then the coach 14 names faces going white one row at a time
14:12perlin's name came right after
14:15an actual unhinged trip then the soldiers dragged her out
14:20i should have watched her leave more carefully i didn't because the king had stepped forward
14:24unit commander outranks every captain in this intake
14:27it is the highest post in the raven guard that isn't mine
14:30i've watched all of you for 14 days
14:33his eyes found me in the back row and stopped
14:35this year's unit commander is renhale
14:47nobody applauded 34 people sat very still while a 5 foot 5 18 year old walked to the front of
14:53a room
14:53to be handed command of them they'll hate you by lunch files scores psych profiles bloodlines build
14:59your teams by morning they can hate me they just have to survive me he almost smiled i read files
15:04until
15:05three in the morning though i didn't need psych profiles a year of being invisible teaches you to
15:09watch at 8 a.m i stood in front of them fiona you've already picked your team say it out
15:15loud
15:15and i'll break you back down to junior fiona shut her mouth every one of you has a flaw i
15:19built your
15:19team around the person who covers it nobody argued once they heard the reasoning fiona's team got the
15:23ground floor five light sleepers between our wing and whatever walks in at night you put us on the
15:26door because you trust us i put you on the door because you're the only ones who'd wake up
15:30we won't disappoint you commander the oath happened at noon in the library
15:34do you swear your loyalty to the lycan crown yes i do do you swear to abstain from relationships
15:40within your unit and across units accepting only a lawful mating or engagement that's the day i heard
15:47my first stranger's thought inside the raven guard a woman from vance's unit passed us in the courtyard
15:51let's see how fast i can get commander vance into my bed it's been in my voice sauli hope the
15:56new lot
15:57brought some willing girls neither of them had spoken am i losing my mind no you're finally hearing
16:03what people are actually saying six months went past like a thrown knife we trained we studied we
16:08ate on our own floor because i wanted my people bonded to each other we graduated three weeks early
16:13the entire unit together which had never happened in 40 years i told my people about my hearing all of
16:19them they swore they'd never tell a soul and talia who reads pack genealogies for fun went pale and said
16:24there are only two bloodlines on record that ever produced that and what wolves used to do to the
16:28females who had it don't you need to know not yet four days of leave before we went operational we
16:35spent them cooking arguing about films and letting talia plan her wedding to beck out loud on the last
16:41afternoon i heard her coming up the stairs talia doesn't stomp talia doesn't raise her voice talia is
16:46the calmest wolf in my unit she came through the door shaking so hard she dropped the takeaway box
16:51between her breathing and her swearing i got the story in pieces commander kade fenrock eight years
16:57in service blocked her in a corridor with two of his men behind him told her exactly what he wanted
17:01which position which room which hour and when she said no then i'll file a fitness report on monday
17:07and your little girl commander won't be able to save you the room went very very quiet i set down
17:12my
17:12coffee and stood up monday monday's my first meeting with the king
17:21sunday night i asked talia to cut my hair two wolves had grabbed it in training and put me on
17:26my back
17:26with it and i have exactly enough ego to hate losing when i walked into the common room my unit
17:31whistled
17:33you look like a woman about to ruin a man's month that's the idea monday morning i put on the
17:39commander's uniform for the first time black silver crown at the collar the single bar on the sleeve
17:43that means every captain in this intake answers to me i was still laughing when i ran up the steps
17:48of
17:48the main building nine minutes late director halloway was waiting outside the meeting room
17:53they're all inside wonderful i open the door three commanders around a long table the king at the head
17:59a young man beside him with a jaw you could cut yourself on and near the window arms folded a
18:04tall man
18:05my apologies for being late your majesty one of my people had to remind me that i lack the necessary
18:09equipment to qualify as a man and i lost track of time somebody choked on their water i'm commander
18:13wren hall i crossed to the king and bowed small and correct his face didn't move at all his eyes
18:17were absolutely dancing commander hail my congratulations to your unit on graduating three
18:21weeks early the first in 40 years actual audible gasps i'd put that in my bed by friday said a
18:27voice in
18:27my head i didn't turn i just marked the direction commander hail my son crown prince rafe how did your
18:32unit take the news that you're not a man they pointed out i have the balls anyway your highness
18:35someone at the table made a strangled noise rafe thone laughed out loud the tall gray-eyed one bit
18:40the inside of his cheek so hard i could hear it and this is commander dorian vance your neighbor
18:44for the past year i believe so that's who's been living on the other side of my wall 12 months
18:4812
18:48months of calling her he commander commander would you excuse me one moment your majesty
18:54there's something i have to do i walked the length of the table cave fenro was leaning back in
18:59his chair smirking opening his mouth to say something clever about my height i hit him
19:02with everything i had right on the hinge of the jaw nobody moved the king did not move captain talia
19:07ellis friday you told her if she wasn't naked in your room within the hour you'd file a fitness
19:12report and end her career fenro's face went gray he tried to get up ren explain so i did all
19:19of it
19:19then i asked the question that stopped every man in that room breathing how many females have been
19:23washed out of the ravengale on a fitness report your majesty and how many of those reports were filed
19:27by a commander they said no to the door opened two royal guards came in and lifted fenro off the
19:31floor they took him out through the door after this meeting i will speak with each of you commanders
19:36one at a time consider carefully what you'd like your last honest sentence to be the faces of some
19:41men in the seats turned pale vance was looking at me then halloway opened the door and came in
19:45your majesty the drexel obligation has arrived early and in walked the wolf who rejected me on my 17th birthday
19:58kane drexen is still the most beautiful man i've ever seen i hate that he was halfway through a
20:04greeting for the king when he saw the crown on my collar and then my face rent commander hale her
20:11father just lost the sablewood contract if i can get the bond back ironville's mine charming a year of
20:16silence and he was doing arithmetic you look careful you're about to compliment a ravenguard commander in
20:21front of her king it's gonna sound like begging rafe thorn turned a laugh into a cough i made a
20:27mistake director could someone show the delegation to the east room they're blocking my morning and i
20:31walked past him nyx howled with joy the entire length of the corridor they gave me fenro's caseload
20:37after that aloe slid the stack across the table without a word which is the ravenguard's version of
20:41a coronation and a punishment at once commander hale as this is your first meeting allow me to explain
20:46how please proceed if it makes you comfortable your majesty if something's unclear you'll know because
20:50i'll ask then let's start with the one that's about to become a body count two packs one strip of
20:57land eleven hundred acres between thorn corm and gray water two years of escalation four failed
21:03arbitrations my unit worked it twice neither alpha will speak to the other how long has the land
21:08itself been empty what reason did either pack it for wanting it nobody answered there's no reason
21:12recorded two years two years of grown wolves measuring each other's fences do you mind if i take a
21:20swing at it your majesty he handed me the file without a single question vance caught up with
21:25me in the corridor up close he's absurd you've been living on the other side of my wall for a
21:31year
21:31you've been calling me he for a year in my defense you never came out of your wing in my
21:37defense your
21:38unit's first thought about mine was to ask how many of my women were willing say that again you've got
21:42a
21:42discipline problem commander fix it before i do he's very confused right now he can't decide whether to
21:49be furious or to mate you neither he's a colleague
21:57we took the land dispute as a full unit two hours into the dry horse he said commander those 1100
22:04acres
22:05have been empty for 118 years conceded jointly in 1908 1908 something cold down the back of my neck
22:10what happened in 1908 nothing in either archive that's the weird part there's a whole year missing
22:14from both we rolled up to the disputed border at sunset 90 armed wolves facing each other across
22:201100 acres of empty grass hands on their weapons not on my watch i got out of the suv walked
22:26into the
22:26middle of the field alone and heard 180 heartbeats change at once gentlemen two questions and then you
22:37can all go home
22:37alpha ordell thorncrossed is 74 and built like a bull that's been dying angrily for a decade alpha morrow
22:44graywater is 80 thin as wire with a cane he doesn't need they've sent a child they've sent a ravenguard
22:50commander first question why do you want this land he opened his mouth to bark something about
22:57ancestral right because if he gets it he'll dig i turned to graywater second question what's buried
23:05out here the old man's cane hit the ground both of them stopped breathing at the same time 90 wolves
23:11shifted confused waiting for orders that didn't come nobody's used this land in 118 years
23:20you don't want the land alphas you want it closed there's nothing out here
23:25then you'll have no objection to a survey graywater sat down slowly on the low stone
23:31wall behind him and put his face in his hands it took 40 minutes and a bottle of thorncross whiskey
23:37in 1908 both packs buried something in that field a girl 19 years old mated off from a third pack
23:44to
23:44seal a trade agreement between them she died 14 months later the mating record was destroyed both packs
23:51agreed the field would stay empty forever and both of them spent a century terrified the other would
23:57one day dig her up and use her whose daughter thorncross looked at the grass doesn't matter she's been
24:05dead a hundred years whose daughter they never gave us the pack name he was thinking it though clear as
24:14a
24:14bell in that cracked old voice inside his skull the hail girl my hands went cold i kept my face
24:20perfectly
24:21still because i've had a year of practice holding my face perfectly still while my chest caves in
24:26here's your solution you seed the land jointly in paternity to the crown neither pack owns it
24:31neither pack can dig the crown consecrates it and posts a warden silence and you put her name on a
24:37stone
24:38whoever she was she was somebody's girl before she was your problem thorncross who has hated graywater
24:43since the nixon administration broke first fine god help me fine they signed at 10 pm on the hood of
24:53my suv and graywater's hands shook so badly orson had to hold the paper as he was leaving the old
25:00alpha
25:00stopped in front of me and stared at my face for a long long moment forgive an old man you
25:07have elbin
25:07hail's eyes the world tipped about 11 degrees you know my mother knew her father you're the hail girl
25:16i'm commander hail child his hand closed on my forearm and his voice dropped so low that nobody on earth
25:23without my ears could have caught it does anyone know what you are i don't know what you mean yes
25:30you
25:30do he whispered you've been listening to my thoughts for the last hour every hair on my body stood up
25:35do
25:36not answer that good night alpha he said and his eyes were wet they killed the last one not in
25:44a field
25:45in a house slowly over nine years by a mate who found out what she could do
25:52that's what's buried out here girl that's what both our packs agreed to bury he let go of my arm
25:59go home get behind your family's walls i don't have a family and i got in the car
26:06i ended a two-year war in 94 minutes the king called it the fastest arbitration in ravengro history
26:13my unit was insufferable the entire drive back i didn't hear a word of it because i finally
26:19understood what talia had tried to tell me two bloodlines on record and i was doing math i did
26:25not want to do a girl with my mother's eyes buried in 1908 and a family who started screaming at
26:32me in
26:32silence the morning after my 17th birthday
26:39we pulled in at dawn fiona went up the steps ahead of me to unlock our wing
26:44and stopped dead before we left she'd wedged a playing card into the door cram at ankle height
26:48because a few of them had a feeling somebody had been coming into our quarters the card was lying on
26:53the floor
26:59nothing was taken that's what made it terrifying no forced entry nothing moved
27:05no cash gone no weapons gone i put us on rotating watch told them nobody leaves the wing alone
27:12and went to report it
27:16and walked straight into dorian vance in the stairwell at six in the morning
27:19in a t-shirt holding two coffees
27:24one of these is for you i was gonna leave it at your door like a coward
27:30somebody's been in my wing he set the coffees down on the step
27:37one of these is for you i was going to leave it at your door
27:37since when
27:38ten days maybe two weeks no entry damage
27:43then it's someone with a key or someone with training
27:46i'll pull my own unit's movement logs all of them including mine
27:51you'd flag yourself
27:54i'd flag myself you had a corridor full of my wolves thinking garbage about your women and
27:58i hadn't noticed i'd rather be embarrassed than useless
28:04mate him
28:06shut up
28:07sorry nothing internal management issue
28:11he handed me the coffee
28:13our fingers touched for about a second and a half
28:16and i thought about the oath and the one exception written to the oath
28:20four years i've been here nobody's ever closed a case in 90 minutes nobody's ever knocked
28:25out a commander in front of the king who are you renhale nobody ask my parents
28:32i meant it as a joke it came out flat and ugly and he heard it he didn't push that's
28:38the thing
28:38about dorian vance i keep failing to get over he picked up his coffee walked me to the top of
28:44the
28:44stairs and said quietly for the record commander whoever taught you that you were nobody was lying to you
28:54then monday came and the king's meeting and everything cracked open
28:58the king opened with the thornmott graywater resolution
29:02then halloway slid a thin blue folder down the table to me
29:07new intake missing person filed by a founding pack high priority they've offered the crown a great deal
29:13of money how long missing
29:18thirteen months reported eleven days ago something in my chest went very still
29:25thirteen months missing reported eleven days ago that's what i said why the delay the filing
29:32pack states that she was living on their territory and they failed to observe her departure every
29:37commander at that table laughed i opened the folder there's a specific sound a room makes when
29:42everyone in it realizes something at once and nobody wants to speak first a photograph clipped to the
29:48corner a girl in a green dress with hair to her waist not smiling taken at an alliance dinner 13
29:55months ago
29:56hail rin elenon age 17 at time of disappearment
30:00sold daughter of alpha marcus and luna elwen hail iron veil reward for information eight figures
30:09attached personal statement from the family i turned the page my mother's handwriting i'd know it anywhere
30:18she writes her w's like little waves to whoever finds her her name is ren
30:24she turns 18 on the 11th not the fourth and i i let her celebrate the wrong day her whole
30:30life because because i was too proud to admit a mistake
30:34she takes her coffee with too much sugar she hates pink she sleeps on her left side
30:42she answered my questions for 17 years and i stopped entering hers for one
30:47and it was the worst decision of my life and i cannot tell you in this letter because the reason
30:52is the same thing that will get her killed please if she is alive do not tell anyone you have
30:59found her
30:59tell me only me my hands were completely steady i have no idea how commander hail is there something you'd
31:09like to tell this room i closed the folder yes your majesty this one's mine
31:23the king cleared the room everyone except rafe and dorian who didn't move and wasn't ordered to which
31:29told me something about him i filed way to think about later sit down rank i'd rather stand sit down
31:35anyway
31:37i sat you've been on my campus for over a year
31:40your family reported you missing 11 days ago did you know they were searching they called 63 times
31:45the day i arrived zero times in the year before it i lived in a boathouse on their territory for
31:49eight
31:49months 200 yards from my mother's window nobody knocked the king pressed his fingers to his mouth
31:53for a long moment marcus hale requested a private audience nine days ago marcus hale has never asked
31:58me for anything in 26 years i don't care you should because he told me why a photographic in a
32:02cracked frame a young woman 19 in a high collar dress black hair my chin my eyebrows my mother's
32:07eyes seraphine hale born 1889 the last daughter born into that bloodline before you she's buried in a
32:13field between thorn cross and gray water yes you closed her case last week without knowing whose
32:18grave you were standing on then he told me the rest every hundred years or so the hail line produces
32:23a
32:23daughter seven in three centuries and every one of them woke on the morning of her 18th third day able
32:28to
32:28do something no wolf was supposed to do two heard thoughts two could feel a lie at 50 paces and
32:33seraphina seraphine could hear a whisper from a mile away and a thought from the next chair her family
32:36kept it secret then she was mated to an alpha who swore on his blood to protect her and within
32:40three
32:41years he worked out what she was worth he used her to strip nine packs trade secrets affairs debts when
32:47she resisted he broke her slowly that pack still exists rin it's called sablewood and they have spent
32:52118 years waiting for another hail daughter i sat there listening to my own pulse my father the morning
32:57after my 17th birthday he shut his office door he called a meeting your mother your brothers his
33:01two most trusted men he told them they had 365 days to prepare because you'd receive your gift the
33:06moment you turned 18. so they stopped speaking to me they stopped speaking about you in every room
33:12on every phone because your father found a bot wolf inside his own walls nine months earlier
33:18i couldn't breathe for a second they could have told me one sentence one rin we love you we're
33:23protecting you be patient yes they could have they were wrong it cost them their daughter and your
33:27father knows it i put my face in my hands and for about four seconds i let it hurt none
33:33of that
33:33matters now something's wrong somebody's been getting into my quarters no forced entry nothing taken
33:40soren ashby the ashby pack who did the ashby's bank with
33:46sablewood
33:48the door banged open and halloway stood there white as paper with a phone in his hand your majesty
33:53commander it's ironville they were ambushed on the coast road an hour ago and luna elvin is gone
34:03they came to the raven guard gate at 4 p.m i watched from a fourth floor window because apparently
34:08i'm still enough of a coward to want a wall between me and my own blood one suv my father
34:12in a suit he
34:13clearly slept in and two of my brothers asher and colt my father hadn't shaved marcus hale has
34:17shaved every day since 1989 commander you don't have to see them i'll tell them you're deployed go
34:22down not for them for your mother i went down they stood in the courtyard with their hands empty and
34:30their spines straight the way our pack trains you to stand when you're being judged i watched my oldest
34:35brother the wolf who taught me to ride a bike look straight at my face and failed to recognize me
34:39for a
34:40full second because of the hair and the uniform and the eight inches of distance in my eyes then he
34:45did recognize me and asher hale made a sound i'll hear on my deathbed and went down on one knee
34:50in
34:50the gravel get up rick get up you don't kneel in this courtyard it belongs to the crown not to
34:55you
34:59he got up my father hadn't moved he was looking at the crown on my collar the bar on my
35:05sleeve
35:09you're a raven guard commander yes you're 18 years old yes rent do not say my nate 13 months
35:18i lived in your boathouse for eight of them i ate breakfast alone at your table 200 times on the
35:23night of the alliance dinner you toasted your children and you named three the king told me why
35:27then you know i know you had a reason i know it was a good reason and i need you
35:31to understand it
35:31that doesn't undo a single one of those 365 days because i lived them not knowing i let that sit
35:38you didn't protect me you protected the secret my father's face broke apart my father who has stared
35:44down councils and hurricanes stood in a courtyard and cried in front of his son yes that's exactly
35:49what i did something old and locked in my chest twisted at the sound i hated it
35:54where's mom ashbur stepped forward with a phone
35:59they sent this 90 minutes ago a video my mother on a chair in a room with no windows hair
36:05down a cut on
36:06her cheekbone and behind her a man in his 60s with silver hair and a signet ring cyrus sablewood alpha
36:11of the pack that killed seraphine hale marcus old friend i've been patient a very long time your wife
36:17tells me you have no daughter your archive says the same that's very good work i nearly believed it you
36:21have
36:22until midnight to hand her to me or i'll send you elevine in pieces and take the girl anyway
36:26the video ended my whole unit had come down behind me nobody spoke rent you are not going to that
36:32meet
36:32i came here to tell you we're handling it i laughed god help me i actually laughed i turned to
36:38my captains
36:39fiona beck vehicles enzo drone package talia every property sablewood owns within four hours of that
36:45coast road filter for no windows no cell signal yes commander vance i need six of yours you've got 12
36:55and me rin why are you helping us i'm not i'm helping her
37:06taria founded in 51 minutes a decommissioned cold storage facility 11 miles off the coast road
37:12owned through four shell companies that all eventually kissed a sablewood account
37:17we staged in a tree lined at 9 40 p.m darian's 12 took the perimeter fiona took the south
37:23vehicle
37:24gate enzo put a drone up at 400 feet and my brothers sat in the second van with their hands
37:29flat on their
37:30knees and their mouths shut because i told them what would happen if they moved give me a second
37:35i closed my eyes i've spent a year learning to do this and i still don't have words for it
37:40it's like turning a dial through static first the wind then the generator then a bird settling in
37:46the gutter then foot depths count them place them hold them slower go under the machines i went under
37:51the machines eleven heartbeats inside nine on the main floor spread wide three near the north door
37:56patrolling one in a small room at the back seated slow steady arrogant and one one sitting very still
38:03in the middle of everything going far too fast i know my mother's heart i fell asleep on her chest
38:08for
38:08the first four years of my life she's alive center of the building eleven hostels three north door six
38:13roaming sablewood in the back how could you possibly because i can hear the difference between a rifle
38:17slack and a belt holster that's my girl cyrus sablewood had spent 118 years waiting for a hail
38:23girl he could put in a chair and use as a listening device he had never once considered that a
38:27hail girl
38:28might come through his door as a raven guard commander with 25 trained operatives he was waiting for a
38:33hostage he got an officer we went in at 958 through the south vehicle door because at 958 the generator
38:43load cycles and the whole building coughs fiona's team took the north door and under four i went
38:48straight up the center two men came around a stack of pallets and i heard them decide to do it
38:52a full
38:52second before they did i put the first one down with his own momentum and the second with a knee
38:58and then there was a chair in the middle of a concrete floor and my mother in it elevine hale
39:03looked up i've thought about what i'd do if i ever saw her again in the boathouse i had entire
39:08speeches
39:08cold ones perfect ones she looked up and she saw a raven guard uniform and it took her a moment
39:14ryan every one of those speeches evaporated out of my head forever hi mom sorry i'm late i was busy
39:22get up behind me now i got her four steps toward the south door before the back office opened
39:32move i shoved her sideways behind a pallet stack as the first shot went into the concrete where her
39:36head had been cyrus sablewood walked out across his own floor like a man at a garden party pistol in
39:41hand while his wolves were folded up around him there she is the little hail cyrus sablewood by warn of
39:48the crown you're under arrest for kidnapping conspiracy and 118 years of stupidity he laughed
39:54he raised the pistol half a second and i was already dropping as the shot went over me
39:59i came up under his arm and broke his wrist across my forearm i put him on the floor knelt
40:05on his spine
40:06leaned down to his ear and made sure my mother heard every word seraphine hale say her name
40:12i leaned seraphine hale she has a stone now i paid for it myself last week then the royal guard
40:19came
40:19through the south door and it was over and my mother was on her knees on a filthy concrete floor
40:25with both hands pressed over her mouth sobbing my name into her palms
40:35she wouldn't let go of my hand in the ambulance i let her hold it i want that on the
40:40record because
40:40i'd sworn to myself i wouldn't
40:45at the hospital my father came down the corridor at a dead run and stopped six feet short like there
40:50was glass in the air he looked at my mother he looked at me fine you do it then
40:59he caught her and held on and over her shoulder he looked at me with an expression i have never
41:05seen on marcus hale's face in my life rent thank you don't thank me sign the king's protection order
41:13and stop trying to manage my life understood commander commander from my father something in my sternum tilted
41:26declin was out of surgery by then and by two in the morning i was standing in a hospital room
41:30with
41:30three brothers colton started it colton is the second youngest and has never held anything in in his life
41:35we made you a binder what he put his phone in my hand with fingers that were still shaking photos
41:41dozens a wall in asher's office floor to ceiling fabric swatches ingo and ox brewed pinned in rows with
41:49dates a seating chart a drawing of the stage and a clearing a menu composed entirely of food i like
41:54and in the center a printed list six feet long 141 items nearly all crossed off
42:00at the top in my mother's handwriting from 18 years ago faded and taped over three times
42:08item one not crossed off
42:13i broke not gracefully not like a commander asher caught me then colton even declan reached out from
42:24the bed and just like that i was squished between two ridiculously huge idiots and everyone was crying
42:31then mom walked in and somehow the waterworks got even worse
42:37i have every list every color you ever mentioned every song 18 years of notebooks they're in my desk
42:45and i couldn't open the drawer all year because i was so afraid of what i was doing then why
42:49didn't
42:49you open it once just once mom because i thought i'd have you afterward i thought i had a year
42:56to borrow
42:57and you were gone 11 days before i noticed and i will carry that until i die we're not fixed
43:02i want
43:03to be honest about that you don't unmake a year in a hospital but at 4 a.m my mother
43:08took my hand and
43:09said sunday just us terrible movies in the greasy diner i'm deployed sunday then the sunday after
43:18and i said yes 12 times i asked her she's asked me once and i said yes and i'm not
43:24sorry dorian
43:25vance drove me back at dawn neither of us spoke for 40 minutes then he said you didn't ask permission
43:31not the king not hallinway you took command of an operation involving your own mother are you writing
43:37me up i'm asking you to have dinner with me i watched the road for a while there's an oath
43:45there's
43:46an exception in the oath for a lawful mating or engagement that's a hell of a first date to propose
43:52i'm a planner he kept his eyes forward but his ears had gone red which i found deeply satisfying
43:59also you should know something before you answer because you'll find out at the next council anyway
44:02i'm not just a commander i know
44:07you know you're the royal gamma's son you take your father's post the day rafe takes the throne
44:11your whole team is future crown staff nobody knows that nobody
44:15dorian i can hear your heartbeat from the next building you've been the worst kept secret in my
44:20life for six months is he doing it now it's been doing it since the hospital he pulled over on
44:27an
44:27empty road at sunrise and kissed me and i let him and nix had the manners to be extremely quiet
44:32for once
44:34we got back to campus at seven there was a black car outside our wing that didn't belong to anyone
44:40at the raven guard and fiona was standing on the steps with a sealed envelope and a look on her
44:44face
44:44i did not like at all commander this came for you an hour ago hand delivered black wax the crest
44:54of the
44:54sablewood pack
45:06i opened it in front of the king one sheet of heavy paper a woman's handwriting elegant unhorried
45:14commander hale my father is old stupid and now in a crown cell which is where sentimental men belong
45:21i have no interest in owning you that was his century's ambition not mine you should know two
45:26things one yours is not the only bloodline that was hunted ask your king what happened to the other one
45:34the line that could feel a lie s sablewood i read it twice then set it on the table the
45:41king had gone
45:42absolutely white your majesty is there a second bloodline that a conversation for a locked room
45:50i'll bring coffee here's where i am now nine days later i'm standing in the west clearing and
45:55address the color of a bruise in front of 200 wolves from 11 packs they threw the party 11 months
46:02of
46:02planning 13 months late and my mother didn't cut a single item not the ingo not the oxbud not the
46:08ridiculous menu of every dish i ever cooked for our kitchens the king came as witness exactly as they
46:13planned a year ago he stood up in front of 200 people and formally acknowledged ren eleanor hale
46:20daughter of ironville unit commander of the raven guard and made it clear in the way only kings can
46:27that anyone who touches me touches the crown cyrus sablewood will never see the outside of a cell
46:35my three brothers each got up and told a story about me designed to make me want to die
46:41kane drexen came because his father made him because ironville is suddenly the pack everyone wants
46:46again he found me by the tables and said ren i want to formally petition to reinstate the bond i
46:55ren hale
46:56reject kane drexen
47:02nick sang for an hour then my mother stood up with a shoe box 18 notebooks one for each year
47:09every color i
47:11ever said i liked every song every dumb opinion in her handwriting starting the year i was born i kept
47:17a list 141 items my daughter has crossed off 140 of them herself which is the most rin thing that
47:23has
47:23ever happened she looked at me item one she will never doubt for one day that she was wanted her
47:31voice
47:31went i failed item one i failed it for 365 days and i will spend the rest of my life
47:38doing it over
47:41rent you were wanted you were wanted before you existed nobody in that field had a dry face including
47:49me and i've been shot at i'm not going to pretend i forgave them in that moment i forgave them
47:55in
47:55pieces over months the way people actually forgive badly and backward and mostly on sundays in a greasy
48:05diner where my mother orders a salad and then eats half my fries here's what i know i'm 18. i
48:11run seven
48:12teams and 35 lives i have a captain getting married in the spring and a gray-eyed wolf who put
48:20a ring in
48:20his desk drawer three weeks ago and thinks i don't know even though i can hear the box every time
48:24he opens
48:25it i have a family that answers my calls on the first ring all five of them which is objectively
48:31excessive
48:31in which i will never ask them to stop i found dorian at the edge of the clearing while the
48:38band was
48:38setting up how long to prep before an extraction he looked at me for a second then he smiled give
48:45me 48
48:45hours commander you've got 24. behind us my mother was calling my name across a field of 200 people and
48:54this time for the first time in 14 months i turned around and i answered