A true leader is always the strongest and most capable member of the pack. However, in the Cursed Forest it isn’t enough to be stronger—you need a special gift and special will to have the right to give orders. That is exactly what the little Hound possesses to a full extent. That is why for many centuries worgen (“turnskins”) and even the irreconcilable khmers have bowed their heads to her. Stregor and his kin have also felt the strength of the new leader. But while the beasts preferred to choose obedience, the Hound—descendant of the Wardens—offered them a different path. Perhaps a more winding one, harder, sometimes deadly dangerous… but then it is the leader’s job to see and understand much more than what is granted to an ordinary mortal.