Chapter 14: Five Years Later

The Thorne Seat for Deep Bites takes the wolves nobody else will take. Four hundred and eleven Severings last year. Thirty-one packs. Nine healers trained on full keep who could not have afforded a single season otherwise. Loss rate under two in a hundred, which is a number I'm not allowed to be proud of out loud, so I'm saying it here. My office has windows. That still surprises me some mornings. Theo is twenty-two and in his second year of healer's training, which he blames entirely on...