Herald

She just kept her eyes vaguely focused on the earth-toned male, the frozen numbness in her center holding her in a static state, too emotionally exhausted to even think. Finally he spoke and her gaze drifted to his. His obvious rage resonated with that trembling spark of something that the numbness was barely holding in abeyance. It woke an answering tremble in her ears, a quiver of her leg muscles as though preparing her to leap, a tiny clench of her jaw. But it was quickly smothered beneath that strange apathy.

"Nothing any alpha can do is going to bring my father back from what they did to him," she told him tiredly. "My brothers and I will get justice for him and for Valor when Valor's well enough to stand with us. We don't need anyone else's help. I just thought the rest of his family should know what happened."

The alpha asked more questions, and Justice shook herself enough to bring her concentration back to the present. "It was autumn when they went missing and I went to look for them. My pack's alpha and I found them north of the wall in northern Boreas. We tracked the killer back to some human thing - a ship? But neither of them were there. They must have had warning somehow that we were coming and escaped just ahead of us. I don't know who could have warned them." She shrugged, a sharp, frustrated gesture.