It had been a quiet night in Banglador. The hunt had been no more successful, but the number of casualties was down considerably from the prior evening and the injuries the hunters sustained were much less severe.  Her father considered it a strange occurrence that the wolves had fought so fiercely the night that Lunus had fallen from her horse, but she supposed that it was more likely to have been Evan's influence. If he really was holding the other wolves back f

Andy Parsley laughed when Lunus and Evan came and asked him about Elkshire. "I'm not surprised you don't know about it; I'm just amazed you've never heard of it," he said, still shaking his head and laughing. "Just shows you that Hollis isn't doing so good a job as he'd like to think he is. It's an old Kingsmen town in Altruon. Burned to the ground once some few hundred years ago, and a lot of folks died."  

The circle shrank as the men began to descend on the two fighters, all in attendance swarming on Evan's position with a vile and unrivaled hatred.  He punched one man, then another, fending them off, but there were too many of them for him to fight all at once. One man struck at him as another man held him back. He threw off the man who was restraining him and ducked down, allowing the other man to punch his companion in place of

The night was dark and cold in Banglador, but it was colder and darker in Malkouth. It was nearing dawn by the time that the wolves had finished their hunting expedition and returned to their dens. There was a time when the pack had all come to rest together after a night's activities, but Balthazar had put an end to that when the wolves had begun to turn against their own kind.  It was a pity what had happened with the informants. Those who acquiesced to the Hunters served them as the lowest members of town society. They would never be seen as men again, only as domesticated animals and

Ryan Hollis pulled a book off the shelf and blew the dust from the cover. The tiny particles swirled in the stale air of the study as Lunus and Evan watched, waiting for him to speak.  "It has been a long time since Elkshire," Ryan told them, "but some things never change." He opened the book, leafing through the