Not through the formal notice system — that was not how packs communicated about things that required warmth. Through Marcus, who had been managing the incoming messages with the specific competence of a man who knows which ones needed to reach the Alpha directly and which ones could be acknowledged through the standard channels.
Eleanor's inner families had responded with the particular formality of people who understood this birth as a formal event in the pack's history as well as a personal one: written notes, careful, acknowledging both the bloodline significance and the simple fact of a child arrived.
The outer community had been different.
Marcus had flagged twelve responses from outer community members, one of which he had marked with a single word: Read this one first.
It was f
