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Chapter 42: Something Different

Author: AndreVee
last update publish date: 2026-08-19 21:38:08

The clearing had gone quiet, the last attacker's retreat already swallowed by the trees. Four bodies lay still in the trampled grass. Wren sat down hard on a fallen log, legs finally admitting they'd had enough, and made herself look at the wolves once before she let herself look away.

"What do we do with them," she asked.

"Leave them for now. We'll send word back for a burial party once we've reported this." Darius crouched beside the nearest wolf-form body, studying the markings along its sho
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