Lyla

The moment my eyelids shut, the kitchen around me faded away, and I found myself standing with Nymeris.

Since her death, I could no longer communicate as effectively as I did when she was here, so each time she had important information to pass to me, I went to her instead.

And since I cannot shift because of the babies, too, this was a better solution.

Nymeris's world was filled with swirling mists and the soft glow of moonlight that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once.

"What's wrong?" I asked her as she stood before me

'Danger is coming Lyla,' Nymeris said. 'Multiple supernatural signatures are moving with coordinated purpose. They're not random attackers, this is a planned assault.'

"How many?" I asked, hoping my racing heart won't jump out of my chest.

'At least seven, possibly more. The same corrupted scent we detected at the crime scene, but stronger now. More focused.'

"The same creatures that killed those people?"

'Yes. And they're specifically targeting this location. This isn't a coincidence, Lyla. Someone told them exactly where to find us.'

If these creatures were the same ones responsible for the killings, and if they were now targeting our temporary safe house, it meant someone had betrayed our location.

Someone who knew exactly where we were staying.

"How long do we have?" I asked.

'A few minutes at most, though the attack on this house won't happen right away. They would try to attack humans at a social gathering and put more fear in the hearts of the people to cause confusion in the hearts of the human and make them put their trust in these individuals rather than in their government."

"Can you identify what they are at least?"

creatures, but it has been twisted somehow. Like someone took werewolf essence and perverted it with something else, something that shouldn't exist

from the Dark

feels different. Older. More primal. Whatever created these things has been planning

"What do we do?"

Kyren and the Hollow Kin members are powerful enough to handle these creatures, but they need to know what's coming.

be able to protect anyone from

humans for the first time. Before now, they were operating in the dark. Now they know you're here. These creatures were specifically created to breach supernatural defences. The wards will slow

my consciousness returning slowly "Nymeris, is there anything else

who you

returning to where Ramsey, Kyren, and Elias were still standing in the kitchen. They all had concerned expressions as

are you alright?" Ramsey asked me, and he was

same corrupted supernatural signature from the crime scene.

told you this?" he

"She says they know that we live here but will not

council members immediately and have them establish a protective perimeter around the property. After that, send out a scout team immediately. Three squads. One

siren. I thought we're not minding

this, and we cannot afford to leave any stone unturned. Ask our Shadow Beacons to position themselves to assist in

the local human authorities?" Elias asked,

the door, but Kyren called him

if any

and disappeared from

Kyren said. "I'll be off now to monitor things for myself, but I'll

wait for me to reply before

you to

bedroom, closing the door behind us and activating what I assumed were additional protective

"Let Kyren and the

I could

job right now is to stay safe and protect our children. Let us handle the

exhaustion from communing with Nymeris was already getting to me, and it didn't help that my pregnant

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