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THE LIVING DEATH!
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2026-10-14 22:14:09AUTHOR’S POV
The first scream came from the eastern gate.
Elena dropped her ledger.
A second scream followed, then the warning bell erupted into frantic clanging.
Elena!
Luma's alarm slammed through her mind.
Elena snatched her medical bag and ran outside.
People were pouring from their cottages. A mother dragged two children toward the meeting hall while an elderly man stumbled through the mud, clutching a walking stick. Near the well, a woman stood frozen, staring toward the eastern gate.
“They're attacking everyone!” a young woman screamed as she stumbled into Elena. Blood ran down her forehead. “The sick people—they're biting them!”
Elena caught her before she fell.
“Where?”
“The gate!”
A crash shook the settlement.
Garrick emerged from the crowd, his face drained of color.
“Elena, get everyone away from here!”
“How many?”
“Ten that I saw. Maybe more behind them. Some were running from the infected, but the others turned on us before we could close the gate.”
A guttural growl rose beyond the eastern entrance.
Luma recoiled.
We need to leave. Now.
Elena looked at the frightened families gathering around her. There were children too young to run, elderly residents who could barely walk, and injured people who depended on her for treatment.
“Get everyone to the northern path,” she ordered Garrick. “Families stay together. Nobody approaches anyone showing symptoms.”
“Where are we going?”
“The abandoned settlement beyond the ridge.”
His expression tightened. “Half those buildings are falling apart.”
“Then we'll repair them.”
Another crash sounded from the gate.
Garrick stopped arguing.
“Move!” he shouted, racing into the crowd.
Elena hurried to her treatment room. She swept bandages, antiseptic, fever medicine, painkillers, and medicinal herbs into her bags. She grabbed the small medical kit she had prepared after the first infected man died, then swept the remaining clean supplies into a cloth sack.
A heavy impact rattled the door.
She spun around.
A wounded guard staggered into the room, one hand pressed against his blood-soaked side.
“They broke through,” he gasped.
Elena caught him before he collapsed.
“Sit down. Let me see.”
“No time.” He seized her wrist. “One of the men we brought in yesterday was bitten. He started shaking, then attacked the others.”
“How long ago?”
“An hour. Maybe less.”
“Where is he now?”
The guard stared at her.
“Dead. I think.”
Elena's stomach clenched.
She bound the guard's wound quickly, checked that he could walk, and pushed a clean cloth into his hand.
“Keep pressure on that. Go to the northern path and stay with Garrick.”
“What if I turn into one of them?”
Elena paused.
She had no answer that would comfort him.
“Then we'll deal with it if it happens. For now, keep moving.”
He nodded shakily and disappeared through the doorway.
Outside, the settlement had descended into chaos.
A man was trying to drag a chest of belongings through the mud. Two women argued over a sack of flour. Near the well, an elderly resident refused to leave his house, insisting that the infected could be stopped if everyone fought together.
Elena climbed onto the stone rim of the well.
“Everyone, listen to me!”
Her voice was swallowed by the shouting.
Garrick appeared beside her.
“Quiet!” he bellowed. “Let her speak!”
The crowd gradually fell silent.
Elena looked at the faces turned toward her.
“We cannot defend this settlement. The eastern gate has fallen, and we don't know how many infected are coming. We leave now, while we still have a path out.”
A broad-shouldered man pushed through the crowd.
“And abandon our homes?”
“Would you rather die inside them?”
His face reddened. “You're a healer, not an Alpha. Who gave you the right to order us around?”
For one fleeting instant, the words dragged Elena back beneath the moonlit sky of Blackthorn territory.
Kaiden's cold expression. The watching wolves. The humiliation of being told she was not worthy of standing beside him.
Then another crash echoed from the eastern side.
The memory vanished.
Elena stepped down from the well and faced the man.
“I'm not an Alpha,” she said. “But I know the mountain paths, I know where we can find shelter, and I know what happens when people waste time arguing while danger is at the door.”
She pointed toward the northern trail.
“If you have a better plan, tell us now.”
The man glanced toward the eastern gate.
A scream rose from beyond the cottages.
He fell silent.
“We move together,” Elena continued. “Take food, water, medicine, and warm clothing. Leave anything too heavy to carry. Keep children beside their families. If someone falls behind, help them. And if you see anyone behaving strangely, do not approach them.”
“What about the infected?” a woman asked, clutching a toddler against her chest.
“We keep our distance. We protect those who can still be saved, and we don't risk everyone trying to rescue someone we cannot reach.”
The woman's eyes filled with tears, but she nodded.
Garrick raised his voice.
“You heard her! Northern path! Move!”
The crowd began to disperse.
Not everyone followed immediately. Some residents lingered in their doorways, staring at the homes they had spent years building. Others rushed inside to collect treasured belongings.
Elena helped an elderly man onto a makeshift stretcher while two hunters secured the handles. She gave a teenage boy a small knife and ordered him to stay beside his younger sister. Then she packed extra bandages into a mother's bag and checked the injured guard as he passed.
Every second mattered.
She was helping a child secure a blanket around her shoulders when a sharp crack split the air.
The eastern gate collapsed.
The crowd turned.
Through the gap came a man with blood covering his mouth. His clothes hung in torn strips, and his head jerked from side to side as though he were searching for prey.
A guard rushed toward him with a spear.
The infected man slammed into him.
They struck the ground together.
Before the guard could rise, the infected creature sank its teeth into his shoulder.
The man's scream cut through the settlement.
“RUN!” Elena shouted.
Panic erupted.
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