Aeron Lancaster had left the castle for eight hours and returned to find the building had caught fire in every direction simultaneously.
He was in the Alpha's chambers, explaining to their Gamma and Beta how their future Luna accidentally put the Alpha in a coma.
Griffin Sharpe, Shadowclaw's Beta, stood near the window with his arms crossed and the face of a man processing information that had arrived in a format his training had never covered. Knox Rainer, the Gamma, was leaning against the far wall, arms folded, watching everything and everyone with the quiet, cataloguing focus of a man whose job description included know things before they become problems and whose job was currently twelve hours behind schedule.
