The messenger came to Ashenveil in the colours of Blackmoon, asking to speak with the new Luna alone.
I almost laughed at the request.
I had been queen of anything at all for less than a month. I was still learning the names of the kitchen staff, still catching myself when someone called me "my Luna" instead of the Beta's daughter I had been my whole life. But I was not foolish enough to meet a Blackmoon messenger alone, not after everything, and I told the man so plainly, with Kael standing silent and immovable at my shoulder.
"Alpha Kane sends his regards," the messenger said, when he understood I would not be moved. "He wishes to know how you are settling. He says, if there is anything the Blackmoon Pack can offer the new Luna of Ashenveil, in the spirit of old ties, he would be glad
