Chapter 267

• Kade
• The challenge arrived in the old, formal language pack law still technically required for such things, delivered by a runner who looked distinctly uncomfortable to be carrying it.
• "Alpha Denzel Blackridge invokes the Right of Challenge," the runner recited, clearly reading from a card rather than trusting memory with words this dangerous. "For leadership of Stormridge Pack, to be settled by combat according to ancestral custom, at the Alpha's earliest convenience."