Ryder Kale had walked himself over to the training ground about an hour after things had settled down, they were all seated drinking tea, and he requested to have a word with Shelby. She’d looked at him as had all the King’s Eyes, and herself and Shelby had gotten up and walked over to where he stood. He’d bowed his head slightly, “My apologies for disrupting you, but I will be organizing the full leadership pledge of loyalty tonight if that is acceptable to yourselves. Or would you perhaps prefer it to happen after the upcoming full moon?” “Today is fine,” Shelby had answered him. “Where will you hold it?” Ryder asked. “At the back of the packhouse, out on the grassed area, it will be nothing fancy, just a simple statement of facts about what happened this morning, then the pledge of

