Margaret answered Tate’s question casually, “Blue Crescent slaughtered ten of our elders about nine years ago. A year after that, Blood Eclipse killed about fifteen. We ran into Midnight completely by accident and lost another eight. White Blood killed seven out of eight. The last one came back severely traumatized. And the last run-in we had with a pack was with the wolves from Forest Gloom three years ago. We lost two.”

Wow. Every alliance member made it to the list. Tate scratched the back of his head and was thinking hard on the best way to respond.

“There’s really no hard feelings,” Margaret noted when she noticed Tate’s uneasiness....