(Caius)
The exiles left first.
That was how I'd planned it. Not because the order mattered procedurally but because it mattered in every other way. Rodan and Maren would be off Ashcrest land before anything else was finalised, before the new leadership was announced, before the transfers were completed. I wanted them gone while the pack was still on the grounds and present. I wanted every wolf on this territory to watch exactly what happened to the people who had built what Ashcrest had been.
My warriors brought them out through the main doors.
Rodan came first.
He'd been stripped of his Alpha rank formally during the sentencing and whatever had been left of his composure after that had finished eroding somewhere between the holding chambers and this moment. He walked with his wrists
