It arrived through the pack bond.
Not a letter this time — something faster, more intimate, the specific transmission of a message sent wolf-to-wolf through the bond's frequency in the way that only someone with pack standing could send. Not quite speech. Not quite emotion. The particular vibration of directed communication between bonded wolves that bypassed distance and delivered meaning directly.
I felt it while I was in the training ring with Petra.
She saw my face change and stopped mid-demonstration.
"What is it?" she said.
"Someone sent through the bond," I said. "Someone with pack standing."
"From inside the territory?" she said.
"From—" I paused. Feeling the direction. The origin. "From the east boundary. The outer packs."
"Who has standing at the east boundary?" she said.
