FAYE
I remained in the living room for several minutes after Alexander left.
The silence around me should have been comforting.
Instead, it only gave my mind more room to wander.
I couldn't stop thinking about everything he had just told me.
Border settlements.
Autonomy.
Years of resentment.
It felt strange hearing about a part of Blood Crescent that I knew so little about. I had lived here long enough to know the major villages and the families that served the pack faithfully, yet I had never once considered what life must have been like for those who spent every day guarding our borders.
Had they truly been neglected?
Or had years of hardship simply convinced them that they had?
I honestly didn't know.
What I did know was that none of it justified what had happened to me yest
