~RYLAND'S POV~
They called the meeting themselves.
That was the part that told me everything about where things stood. I didn't summon the council, they sent a collective request to my study before noon, which was the diplomatic version of saying they weren't going to wait. I read the message, set it down, and told Cade to have them assembled in an hour.
I wasn't going to rush for them.
When I walked in, the room had the particular atmosphere of a group of people who had been talking about you before you arrived and had stopped just before the door opened. Every face arranged into something careful. The table full, every seat occupied, which meant they'd called in the outer members too. Not a quiet conversation. A full council.
I sat down. Cade stood near the wall behind me.
"Alpha Ryland." Dorin opened it, which surprised me, he wasn't usually the first to move.
"There are reports that the silver wolf seen in our eastern woods is the Luna."
