POV: Theron
He's lived centuries. He knows how this ends.
The war preparations have the quality of things that have been inevitable for longer than the people preparing for them have understood they were inevitable.
I watch my daughter command.
She's standing at the center of the group's planning, the twin Alpha heirs on both sides running the pack mobilization assessment, the mortal mate running the tactical geography, the god providing the divine architecture read, the two loyal followers managing the logistics. The human woman organizing the non-combatants at the territory's edge with the mortal mate's assistance.
