I smiled at the ten ladies in front of me. Some immediately returned my smile, others just checked to see what everyone else was doing before smiling back.
“Thank you all for joining me here today.” I said to the otherwise silent room. “I hope you will enjoy the food and drinks, and the company too of course.”
That they were unsure of, as was I to be honest. They all knew each other, they had been through wars and politics together already. I was both the new one and the one with the most power. They were the ten most powerful lunas and therefore the women who I needed to befriend.
The hall was small. The wolves called it a hall, but I recognized the architecture as an old church. The pews had been stripped away, leaving diagonal marks on the floor, but the altar was still at the far
