Different Kinds of Progress
Katie had been doing a good job of hiding any flaws she might have inherited since coming from the moon palace. For the most part, she appeared even more powerful and omniscient than before.
By simply returning to the mortal world, she'd driven every Rogue to the Origin and put an end to a scheme that the Rogue King had been concocting for a whole two years.
All the most powerful hunters were even gathered for one last showdown at the Origin. Everything was going according to plan.
Yes, there were still a few things to address before anyone really started implementing what would liberate the world from an age of fear and suffering but so far, everything was going well… if not better than any wolf could ever hope to achieve single-handedly.
And yet, even through all that, Katie's foster mother, the woman who had raised and trained her into the lethal killing weapon that came to be known as the Rogue Killer had seen right through her.