Lucian didn't retaliate. He walked into the third hearing and presented the evidence as an addendum to his claim, demonstrating that the holding house fostered an environment hostile to the lawful inhabitants of the territory, and the addendum was so precisely worded and so devastatingly timed that it destroyed what was left of Halvoran's credibility before their advocate opened his mouth.
The three wolves, the ones who were attacked in the capital, healed. The note was framed and hung in the Moon Kingdom's council hall, because Lucian believed in remembering what people showed you about themselves when they thought they were winning.
Lucian renamed it.
The naming was deliberate. Argenvael was his parents' kingdom. The name belonged to a Fae court that no longer existed, a history that was his but was no longer the future he was building. The wolves needed a name that was theirs. A name that said what they were and what they stood for and where they had come from in a single word.
