Chapter 16

　　It’s almost midnight when they finally reach the outpost to Clan BloodBane. The moonlight has guided their path and the rest of the path has been uneventful. Two wolves welcome them inside the lone building which looks like a rundown compilation of bricks from outside but is pretty clean and comfortable inside. Exhaustion settles like a heavy stone on Niya’s bones and she swiftly runs into the shower. She needs to change her clothes stained with blood and wear something suitable for her ‘royal friends’.

　　“Vivi, there is one more washroom here. If you want you can go first.” Donny calls her from the adjacent room while Chase is outside talking with his clansmen. When he finally comes in he flops down on one of the cots laid out on the ground, tired and irritated by everything that happened and is going to happen. Although it was his strategy back at the scene, he is not accustomed to being ordered around.

　　Then there are the questions of the threat running loose in the woods. Who d