Chapter 141 - A Merciful Murderer

Alpha Gregor stood in front of the surviving council members with a solemn gaze as the room fell silence. Once filled with influential voices, the council was now home to just three, Luna Anne, Luna Iris, and Luna Celeste. Each of them bore the sorrow of a loved one. They'd been shaken by the murders of their other clan elders, and now everyone was focused on Gregor as he started to narrate his experience. "It was after midnight. My men and I were riding through the woods” he began, although Gregor replied in a calm tone, there was a hint of anxiety in his voice. “There was some type of quiet in the air that only anticipated something dreadful. It was initially simply a rustling, nothing unusual. But then..." He hesitated, as though mentally replaying the incident. "Then the first arrow struck" Luna Anne leaned forward, her eyes focused. "An arrow? Not magic?” she asked, "An arrow," Gregor confirmed. “A clean shot that went straight through one of my men's skulls. Not even en