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Chapter 356 A New Bloodline Protocol 

Lady Flourish POV 

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By the time Damian and I returned to F-Tech the following morning, I had decided that Merek’s warning would not stop the work we needed to do. 

We still had unanswered questions about our bloodline, but the overseas distress signal and the dormant pack accounts showed that our immediate problem was bigger than our family. 

Rhys was waiting in the operations room with three members of the technical team. 

Several screens displayed the current network records, including the packs that had responded to our earlier contact and those that had remained silent. 

“We need a system that doesn’t depend on every pack activating the bloodline channel,” I told them. “Some of these packs are afraid of Voss. Others may not trust us enough to share their locations or internal records.” 

One of the engineers, Niko, turned from his screen. “We can build a separate emergency channel, but it needs a reliable way to confirm who’s sending a request. If someone has access to a dead wolf’s credentials, ordinary authentication won’t be enough.”- 

“Then we don’t use ordinary authentication,” Rhys replied. “We combine several checks.” 

I pulled a chair closer to the central display. “Explain what you have in mind.” 

Niko brought up a draft. Each participating pack would receive a unique encrypted identity key, verified through a contact approved by that pack. 

Emergency requests would require the key and a second confirmation from a registered representative, preventing someone with stolen credentials from sending false distress calls. 

“What happens if the representative is injured or unreachable?” I asked. 

“We can register two backups,” he said. “The pack decides who they are. If all three are unavailable, the request can still be flagged for review, but it won’t automatically release sensitive information.” 

That mattered. A pack in danger shouldn’t have to wait for permission from someone who might already be dead, but an attacker shouldn’t be able to use a false emergency to expose an entire territory. 

Damian stood behind my chair, reading the draft over my shoulder. “What about the location?” 

“We can use emergency location beacons,” Niko explained. “A pack can activate one through its 

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local security system. It sends encrypted coordinates to authorized responders, along with a timestamp and a basic distress status.” 

“Can someone track a pack by leaving the beacon active?” Damian asked. 

“No. The beacon stays inactive unless the pack activates it or triggers an approved emergency condition. The location data is only released to the responders named in that pack’s settings.” 

I asked the team to add a manual activation option that could work even if the local network went down. 

Some territories had poor communications infrastructure, and I refused to build a system that would fail when its users needed it most. 

We spent the next hour discussing access limits, verification delays, and what information responders actually needed. A medical team did not need a pack’s political agreements, while a patrol team needed enough information to reach the correct location without crossing another territory blindly. 

By noon, we had the foundation of a new protocol. It would provide encrypted communication, pack authentication, and emergency location beacons without forcing participating packs to surrender control of their records. 

The system also needed a way to protect packs that had never formally joined the bloodline network. 

“Give them a limited emergency registration,” I said. “They should be able to request medical evacuation or report an attack without agreeing to share anything beyond what’s necessary for that request.” 

Rhys nodded. “And they can withdraw whenever they choose?” 

“Yes. Their keys must be revocable, and withdrawing must not erase the emergency records already needed to investigate an attack. We should preserve evidence without keeping access to their private systems.” 

Damian leaned against the table. “What stops Voss from pretending to be one of these packs and sending our people into a trap?” 

“Nothing makes impersonation impossible,” Niko answered, “but the authentication checks should make it much harder. We can also require responders to confirm a location through a second channel before entering a dangerous area.” 

I looked at Rhys. “Add that requirement to the field instructions. No team should enter hostile territory based on a single message, even if the request passes authentication.” 

He recorded the instruction while the engineers updated their draft. 

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Our next step was to test the protocol without using real emergency locations. 

The team created simulated requests from three dormant pack accounts, including one with credentials that had supposedly been inactive for years. 

The first request failed because the identity key could not be verified. 

The second passed authentication but stopped at the representative confirmation stage. The third triggered an alert because the account had been accessed from an unregistered device. 

“That’s the kind of warning I want,” I said. “Flag suspicious activity, but don’t label a pack hostile just because its account has been compromised.” 

We ran the tests again after the team made adjustments. This time, the approved emergency request reached the designated responders, while the other two remained restricted. 

It was a start, though we still needed independent security testing before the protocol could be trusted in a real crisis. 

Rhys opened the list of dormant packs. “We have enough to approach the ones that already agreed to protected communication. They’ll need to nominate their representatives and decide who can receive emergency location data.” 

“Send them the proposal with the access limits clearly stated,” I said. “Don’t make participation sound compulsory, and don’t promise protection we haven’t tested.” 

He began preparing the invitations. 

I watched the screens as the engineers worked. For years, some of these packs had remained disconnected because they feared the people who might discover them. 

We could not remove that danger by building a better system, but we could give them a way to ask for help without placing their entire future in our hands. 

A notification appeared on the central display. One of the dormant accounts had attempted to access the old network again. 

Niko opened the alert. The attempt had been blocked, but its source could not yet be confirmed. 

“Save the access record,” I told him. “Keep the new protocol separate from the old we understand how that account was reached.” 

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Rhys looked up from his desk. “Do you want to delay contacting the packs?” 

“No. We can protect them while we investigate, but we won’t pretend the threat has 

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disappeared.” 

I turned back to the protocol draft and approved the next phase of testing. 

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The system was not ready for full deployment, yet the first version gave us something the dormant packs had lacked: a secure way to call for help without handing us control of their lives. 

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