Chapter 16 Fractured Loyalty

• "Abomination." The word followed me down the corridor before I'd even reached the kitchens, hissed by a wolf who thought I couldn't hear her. "Coven-touched. Should've let Kael finish it when he had the chance."
• I kept walking. I'd learned by now that stopping only fed it.
• The whole fortress had shifted since the map room, wolves who'd tolerated my presence now watching me with open suspicion, some crossing to the far side of a corridor rather than pass too close. Silver-white light unmaking a man in front of witnesses did that, apparently. It didn't matter that the man had been trying to kill their alpha. It mattered that I'd done something no ordinary wolf could do, and fear made poor company for gratitude.