Four years later.
The heavy iron gates of the Silver Moon Estate stood wide open, bathed in the crisp, golden sunlight of early autumn. But today, the atmosphere was thick with the bittersweet anxiety of parents sending their children out into the world.
The Alpha Princes of the Silver Moon—Auric, Ryker, and Sterling—along with Ethan’s son and Faith, were now seventeen years old.
According to ancient supernatural treaties, the age of seventeen was the year all royal and high-ranking heirs were sent to the Royal Academy of Creatures. Located on neutral territory deep within the central valleys, the Academy was a massive, ancient institution where wolves, witches, and other mythical factions sent their youth to learn diplomacy, advanced combat, and inter-species history before they tu
