"How long will it take to get from this pack to the Moon Dew pack?" Cane asked Will.
They had shunned away the swindling merchant and destroyed three of his carriages that carried rotten meat. It was not a problem, because no one in their right mind would be able to eat that rubbish anyway.
"It will take a week to go there," Will replied.
They were inside a tavern, drinking cheap ale, while it was raining outside. Their mood was sour at the moment after what happened.
"You are not thinking of going to the black market, right?" Ethan furrowed his brows, he tried to read what was in the alpha’s mind, but once again he failed to do so.
Meanwhile, Jace looked concerned. There was another important problem that they had to consider if they wanted to make it a trip down there.
"A week’s journey, which means it will take at least twenty days to return," Jace murmured. At least, they would need six days to one week to get what they needed.
However, none of them had ever gone to that kind of place and on top of that, there was this new moon as well.
If they were lucky, they would be able to return before the next new moon, but anything could happen during their journey and it was too risky.
Not a single soul should know about what happened to Cane and they needed to keep it that way.
"We can buy crops from the Crystal Moon pack," Ethan suggested, but that was not enough. As soon as he said it, he himself could see how stupid that suggestion was.
Asking help from their neighboring packs was almost like revealing their weakness and once they did that, they would hunt them down, use it as their bargaining chip and history would repeat itself.
The only thing that was now holding them back from attacking this pack was the image that Cane displayed. He created a false image, nothing truer than a mirage, deceiving people how strong these two packs were under his control, as this became the biggest pack in the southern kingdom.
It worked, but it wouldn’t last forever. They would see there were piles of internal problems he was hiding and they needed to reduce the possibility of them ever finding it out.
"Where is Redmond?" Cane asked Ethan. With him asking for the head warrior of the Blue Moon pack, all of them could see where it would go.
"Cane." Ethan frowned. He didn’t like the idea.
"Talk to me when you have a better idea."
Ethan lowered his head. He didn’t have one, nor did Jace and Will.
On the other hand, Cane knew that his father wouldn’t like this, he would always say not to engage in trade in the black market, but he was dead already and Cane needed to think about hundreds and thousands of people that relied on him heavily.
"He is in the training ground. He must be there if he was not in the pack house." It was Will who answered the question.
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