Chapter 45

“Rudiger executed some changelings, because he thought they were causing trouble with the humans, hunting the village cattles. They had to move back into the forest, deeper into the woods. He was embarrassed. For all his boasting, he never can get things done, can he?” This would work. Walter would eat this up.

He did, he lapped it up with feline glee in his dog eyes. “Rourke helped him cover it up?”

Desmond needed another crime to hold over Half Moon’s head. He was fishing where he shouldn’t be. Flynn’s loyalty was to the pack that had rescued his family right from the mouth of a beast while Communion called an unprovoked attack a dispute. So they could wash the responsibility off their hands.

“No. Rourke doesn’t know they have been executed. And Rudiger didn’t flash it obviously. He was trying to hide he had become so desperate to preserve discipline, he had to kill lesser beings to prove a point.”

According to the protocols laid down by Communion, no packs were allowed to punis