Chapter 123

They reached Bloodfang as the sun went down.

The boundary stones blazed when Marina crossed them, the recognition response, warm and consistent as it had been every return. The broadcast pulsed briefly at full strength as she entered the home territory frequency, the specific quality of the signal when the broadcaster and the territory occupied the same ground simultaneously.

Twenty-four practitioners in the reverse channel now.

She felt them all register her return.

Ragnar was at the boundary.

Not waiting in the formal sense. He had been running an evening perimeter check with two of the coalition's extended membership wolves and had timed his route to intersect with...