Chapter 36
Two years ago, before he ever set foot on this campus, Sonam had read a report that changed the direction of his search entirely, at least for a while.
It was a small mention, buried deep in a stack of papers his advisors regularly sent him, gathered from informants scattered across different territories. Most of these reports were useless, gossip and rumor with no real substance behind them. He had learned to skim through them quickly, looking for anything that stood out.
This one stood out.
A noble had been murdered in a wealthy pack territory to the south. The one convicted of the crime was a young woman, adopted into the family years earlier. The report was short, mostly focused on the political fallout of the murder rather than the girl herself, but one detail caught So
