ROMAN
I saw it happen.
Not up close—not the way the others did, not from the middle of it—but from enough of a distance to see the whole thing without getting caught in it.
I had been leaning against the far edge, not exactly part of the training, not exactly outside it either. Just… there. Watching. That had become a habit lately. Watching how things worked. Watching how people moved. Trying to understand where I fit into it without having to ask.
That was when it happened.
It was subtle at first.
If I hadn’t been paying attention, I might have missed it.
The way Luna Faye stilled.
The way her focus snapped somewhere else—up, not forward, not toward the wolves she had been correcting a second ago.
Something in her expression changed.
She closed the distance between herself and o
