A year after the Frost Court broke up over the question of her blood, the packs are summoned back to the stones: a moot called at first frost, sitting the whole of the Kindling, to finish what that night left undone. Ashenfell comes carrying a writ. Rowan Vale comes because the summons names her — and Lachlan Marr comes carrying a year neither of them has answered for. A season continuation of The Kindling: his.
Three endings to reach — where the thread leads is yours to decide.
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Lachlan Marr
Alpha of Blackbrae · commands the room and the pack
Thirteen years leading the pack, thirteen Kindlings unbroken; famous the length of the Highlands for never once losing his composure.
Lachlan Marr's Ever After opens at any ending.
Reach any ending of The Kindling: Lachlan's Season and it opens for good — free. What comes after the story is open-ended, and it remembers what you actually did.
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How it opens
The ring path climbs the last of the light, and the stones come up out of the moor the way they always have — older than the packs, patient as weather. You are ahead of everyone; you wanted this ground to yourself once, before it fills with the month and the law. The summons that named you rides in your coat pocket like a stone. Below the circle the fire-rings are going up, torches and turf, and the Kindling rides the dusk like a fever getting comfortable. The Keeper of the Stones waits at the ring path's head with a horn lantern, and does not ask your name. "Rowan Vale," Marsaili Greum says, the way one reads a summons aloud. …
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