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Who the fuck steals burning bodies of the dead?
The motive is completely unfathomable.
Angry flames lick at the night sky, smoldering remnants of what should have been a sacred night, with souls returned to the embrace of the Moon Goddess.
Instead, there are eighteen disturbed mounds, with no bodies to
be found.
Nude after my shift, my bare feet sink into the sodden earth as I move closer, mud squelching between my toes.
י
"Alpha." Kellan's voice cuts through the haze of my thoughts. He holds out a bundle of clothes, emergency spares we keep on hand
for situations like this.
Grabbing only a pair of jeans, I pull them on with a vicious yank, fury boiling just beneath my skin. The breeze, cool and oblivious to the undercurrents of the night, is almost soothing against my heated skin. Around me, my wolves move through the clearing, noses to the ground as they try to parse out any lingering scents. But there's nothing. The air is too clean, too pure. It's as if someone took a giant eraser and before us.
"I don't understand," I mutter, more to myself than anyone else.
"How can there be no scent? It's like the area's been sanitized."
Kellan frowns, his brow furrowed in concentration. "It's not just the scents of the offackers that are missing. I can't even catch a whiff of Ava"
has been
16. 16.
across the clearing. My wolves move like shadows,
No scent, no trail, no sign of the
with emotion. "There has to be something
my lips, I know it's futile.
not, we risk a war that will take too many
silver moon. A true war hasn't come to any pack in a long time. This is inconceivable, and yet we're
It's real.
ICCS Devery
many have already died, but for
as much as my life
all being led to one
Deep.
Slow.
lead to misstep. There's no more leeway
many wolves rely on me for
so soft not even the wolves
Miriam. The connection I share with
much this decision galls
of establishing any sort of connection with those bloodsucking monsters, but we're operating too
to wait around for the
1. us.
keep getting
eyes again,
for guidance now more than ever before.
"is everyone accounted for?"
on full alert. I have two groups out looking for our missing wolves There's
reeling, grasping for answers
let ourselves become so vulnerable? So exposed? The questions gnaw at me,
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